THE JOLLY BOOK OF FUNCRAFT 



Little book of Funcraft play. 
Yours be joy to give away — 
To the children every one 
Carry happiness and fun. 



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THE 

JOLLY BOOK OF 
FUNCRAFT 



BY 

PATTEN BEARD 

Author of 

"The Jolly Book of Boxcraft," "The Jolly Book of Playcraft," 

"Marjorie's Literary Dolls," Etc. 



With Sixty-two Illustrations arranged by the Author and 
photographed under her direction by G. S. North 




NEW YORK 

FREDERICK A. STOKES COMPANY 

PUBLISHERS 






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Copyright, 1Q18, by 
Frederick A. Stokes Company 



All rights reserved 



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DEDICATION 

THIS BOOK OF FUNCRAFT 

IS GIVEN TO ALL LITTLE CHILDREN 

WHO FIND JOY IN EVERYDAY THINGS AND 

WHO WANT TO SHARE THIS HAPPINESS 

WITH OTHER CHILDREN 



AUTHOR'S NOTE 

Thanks are due to The Youth's Companion, The 
Designer, Mc Call's, The Congregationalist, The 
John Martin Book, The N, Y, Tribune and The 
N, Y, Herald and others for permission to reprint 
these little home-made games and entertainments 
which they have used in past years. 

The author wishes also to acknowledge the help of 
her friends among the children who have contributed 
in their own way to the making of this book of fun. 
These are Marjorie and Dorothy Candee, Carol and 
Francis Wing, Eleanor and Richard Mathews, Pris- 
cilla Hatch and Stanley Hoyt and Wesley Meehan. 

Acknowledgment is made to The Dennison Com- 
pany for use of fancy papers, stickers, and party 
decorations. 



CONTENTS 

PAGE 

Introduction (Verse) xiv 

How TO Find Fun i 

The Party Made From Almost Nothing at All . • lo 

A New Year's Party i6 

January Snowflake Fun i8 

The Lincoln's Birthday Celebration ... 24 

A Washington's Birthday Game 29 

Valentine Puzzle Fun 33 

Fun for Valentine's Day 36 

Fun for St. Patrick's Day . . . . • -43 

The Topsy-Turvy Fun for April First ... 47 

Easter-Time Fun .53 

Outdoor May Day Fun 59 

Indoor May Day Fun ...•.•• 64 

June Fun 71 

Fun for July Fourth • 76 

August Fun 82 

September Fun : A Leaf Party Game .... 85 

October Hallowe'en Fun . . . ^ • . 91 

Carrot Fun • • 97 

The Thanksgiving Fun Making .... loi 

Thanksgiving Table Favors and Make-Toy Game . 105 

The Christmas Toy Exhibition 108 

Christmas Fun Party Gift-Making . • . .111 

Christmas-Tree Fun-Making 115 

Surprise Party Fun . . • . •. • • ii7 
The Masquerade Party . . . • , .119 

Snip Picture Fun 124 

Cork Fun . 127 

A Plasticine Party 133 

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CONTENTS 

PAGE 

The Indoor Picnic Fun ....•• 136 

A Balloon Fun Party ....... 141 

Auction Fun-Making 144 

The Queer Party 146 

Envelope Fun 149 

North Pole Fun 153 

Puzzle-Making Fun 156 

Peanut Fun 161 

The Game Party Fun 165 

The Faggot Party 167 

Book Fun-Making 169 

Toy Charade Fun 178 

The Bookplate Fun Party 180 

Fun with Sticker Labels 184 

Trade-Mark Anagram Fun 186 

Guessing Game Fun . . . . . . .189 

Hobo Fun 192 

Bargain Hunting Fun 196 

Garden Party Fun . . . . • . .199 

The Lawn Party Bazaar 204 

The Japanese Fun Party 208 

The Alice in Wonderland Lawn Party . . .211 

Fairy Fun 214 

The Bazaar on Wheels 218 

A Fishing Party on the Lawn 220 

The Fun of Wise Turtle 222 

The Sea Beach Party 224 

The Fun of a Box Party 228 

The Sick-a-Bed-Fun Party 232 

A Lawn Party Contest . . . • . .238 

The Fortune-Telling Fun 241 

The Drawing Party ....*.. 244 

The Funnybeast Fun 248 

SoAP-BuBBLE Fun 251 

The Fun of Illustrating with Snip Pictures , . 254 

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ILLUSTRATIONS 

This Is a Bazaar on Wheels: Five Cents a Grab Frontispiece 

FACING PAGE 

Party Candy-Boxes Cut from Wallpaper .... 6 

Party Letter Paper Stenciled with Water Color Paints . 6 

Party Dresses That Were Made at Home — for Fun . . lo 

Our Party Table Set for a 'Tour- Year-Old Birthday" . lo 

Party Prizes That Anybody Can Make for Fun . , 12 

A Jack Horner Pie Made Like a Bag with Crepe Paper . 12 

Here Is January Fun, Snowflake Patterns .... 22 

Here Is Fun for Washington's Birthday .... 22 

Some Valentines Made with Motto Candies ... 42 

Some Games to Play on St. Patrick's Day, March 17th . 42 

April Fool Candy, Foolscaps, and an April Fool Doll , . 52 

Games to Play at an Easter Party or for Fun in April . 52 

A Woodland Party Made in a Dish ..... 62 
Trophies Brought Home from a Real May Day Party in 

the Woods 62 

Here Is Fun for an Indoor May Day Party ... 70 

June Fun Is All About Birds, of Course .... 70 

Patriotic Games Are Fun for the Fourth of July . . 80 

Butterfly Fun Comes in August ..... 80 

September Fun Is a Leaf Race with Bright Colored Leaves 90 
October Fun Is for Hallowe'en and a Funny Witch has 

Made Magic Ink for It . . . . . .go 

A Pieful of Fun for a Thanksgiving Party . . . 104 
Some Playthings Made from Lemons, Oranges, Potatoes 

and Bananas ........ 104 

A Toy Picture Made for December Fun . . . .110 

Favors of Pretty Candles to Give at a Christmas Party . no 

Fun for a Surprise Party 118 

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ILLUSTRATIONS 



Picnic 



Brown Paper Masks Cut with Scissors 

Indian Head-Dress Made of Newspaper, Collar, and News 

paper Trimming ..... 
Snip Picture Fun Is Jolly — Not so Easy as It Looks 
Cork Fun Is Nice for a Rainy Indoor Afternoon 
The Indoor Picnic Fun for Rainy Indoor Days . 
Little Home-Made May Baskets Made from Small 

Dishes ....... 

A Balloon Party with Colored Penny Balloons . 

Auction Fun Made with Toy Animals 

Fun with Old Envelopes — and the Animals Are for an Ani 

mal Show ....... 

North Pole Fun Is Played with Real Explorers . 
Puzzle-Making Fun ...... 

Peanut Owls, People and Animals for Peanut Fun 

This Is the Exciting Finish at a Game Party. Who Will 

Win? 

This Is Book Fun: Here Are the Titles of Three Books 
Here Are Doll Charades. Can You Guess What Book 

This Represents? ...... 

Here Are Bookplates Made at a Photographic Party . 
Here Are Pictures Made Just for Fun at a Sticker Party 
Advertising Anagrams Must Spell Trade-Marks 
Can You Guess What Is Taken from These Advertising 

Pictures? ........ 

Here Is a Game Called Hobo Hand-Out, Made with Mag 

azine Food Advertisements ..... 
This Is a Game Called Bargains in Which One has to 

Match Pieces of Advertisements . 
Priscilla, Wesley, and Stanley Playing a Game at a Lawn 

Party 

Posters Made of Wallpaper for Bazaar Advertising . 
A Wee Japanese Garden Made at a Garden Contest . 
Fairy Fun: The Fairies Dance to Invisible Fairy Music 
A Fishing Party on the Lawn ..... 

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FACING PAGE 
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ILLUSTRATIONS 

FACING PAGE 

The Fun of the Wise Turtle Game 220 

A Brownie Box Game of Fortune Telling at a Box Fun 

Party 230 

Some Jolly Fun for a Sick-a-Bed Party .... 230 
Oak-Leaf Bookmarkers Made at a Garden Contest . .238 

Hollyhock Dolls Made for a Contest ..... 238 
Playing at Fortune-Telling — But Everybody Knows It's 

Just Make-Believe Fun ...... 242 

This Is a Picture of a Mouse Drawn in Just a Minute . 246 
Here Are Some Funnybeasts, the Donkeybray, Puppywag, 

and Yowlcat ........ 246 

Soap-Bubble Fun Is Mrs. Piper's Party .... 252 

Picture-Illustrating with Scissors, Paste, and Paper . . 252 



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MATERIALS USED IN MAKING 
FUNCRAFT GAMES 

Brown manilla wrapping paper 

Pad paper 

Colored papers 

Wallpapers 

Cardboard, both colored and white 

Newspaper 

Magazine advertisements 

Paper shanks 

Wire shanks 

Little toys 

Penny dolls 

Old envelopes 

Boxes of assorted stickers 

Glazed paper book jackets 

Colored pictures 

Crepe paper. 

TOOLS NEEDED TO MAKE FUNCRAFT GAMES 

Scissors, paste, crayons, 
Pencils, pins. 

PRIZES YOU CAN USE FOR FUNCRAFT 

GAMES 

The little things you know how to make yourself 

A penny sheet of transfer pictures 

A sheet of cut-out pictures 

A box of fancy stickers 

A five-cent box of crayons 

A penny soap-bubble pipe 

A lollypop 

An apple 

Animal crackers 

A new pencil 

A rubber eraser 

A toy flag 

Small favors meant for holiday use 

Japanese water flowers and water pictures 

A five-cent package of garden seeds 

A bunch of flowers or a little plant. 

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FUN PARTY RULES 

A host must always see that others enjoy them- 
selves. 

A host must think first of his guests' enjoyment and 
last of his own happiness. 

A host should greet every child with equal show 
of cordiality. 

A host should never make personal comments. 

A host should never enter into a quarrel. 

When you play games and disputes arise, take a 
vote of all players to decide the matter. 

Make no distinctions. Be polite to all and when 
you say good-by be equally cordial to each guest. 

Remember to thank your host and express your 
pleasure enjoyed at the party when you say good-by 
at its close. 



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INTRODUCTION 

Have you heard of the children who lived in a shoe 
And of the old woman who lived with them, too? — 
Maybe you have heard why she sent them to bed 
And fed them on nothing but water and bread? 

Why, the world all about them was brimful of fun 
And the joUiest plays that are under the sun, 
But the children complained in the horridest way 
That there wasn't a single nice thing they could play! 

When the old woman heard, she just brandished her stick 
And called for the fairies to come right there quick — 
Nimblefingers, the fairy who makes magic joy 
Out of all the old nothings most people destroy; 

Happy Thought, the good fairy who finds some new play 
In the most unexpected and jolliest way — 
With some paper, some crayons, some cardboard, you know, 
You cut and you color and make a game so! 

And the little Play Fairy, who came with them too, 
Was to teach all the children the glad things to do — 
Why, the old woman's shoe was all magic with glee 
Everybody was happy as happy could be! 

They made jolly fun out of nothing at all — 
Every day in the year and from winter to fall — 
They made fairy magic with everyday things 
And each day was so joyous, it sped by on wings! 

Now, the children and fairies who played in the shoe, 
Are giving this glad book of new plaj^s to you, 
For happiest magic, so they have all found. 
Is just sharing the fun you have made, the year 'round. 



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Funcraft 

HOW TO FIND FUN 

Do you believe in four-leaved clovers? Do you 
think that the finding of them will make one lucky? 
I do. I think every person who picks up a four- 
leaved clover is ever so lucky! And I'll tell you 
why I think so — I think one is lucky to have the 
bright eyes that can find in an everyday clover field 
something more than everyday and usual! That's 
what I call lucky. And I think that one can have 
ever so much fun and be ever so lucky every day in 
the whole year if one can find in common-place 
things something new and interesting. 

I'll tell you about something that happened to 
me: There was once-upon-a-time a day that seemed 
just about the dullest day that ever was. There didn't 
seem to be anything to do. I was tired of all my 
games and my toys but I wanted some fun dreadfully, 
I was — yes, I was sulky and cross — I went outdoors 
to w^ander around all by myself and while I was 
walking I stubbed my toe and looked down at the 
path. Right there — you can believe me or just think 

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it is make believe — right there I saw a fairy with a 
four-leaved clover! 

''O, hello!" I exclaimed. ''Now that I've found 
a magic clover, I'm going to make a wish and it will 
have to come true because a four-leaved clover is 
sure to bring luck!" 

'What do you wish?" asked the fairy. 

"I wish for some jolly fun," I replied. "I don't 
know what to do with myself. Everything seems 
dull and uninteresting — but now that I have magic 
something nice will be sure to happen!" 

The fairy nodded. "If you look about you, you'll 
find more four-leaved clovers," she suggested. 
"Every day of the year is full of lucky fun, one needs 
but the eyes that can see it. Why don't you hunt for 
your fun and find it in everyday things? It's there 
just as four-leaved clovers are in clover-fields!" 

"I can't see it," said I. 

"Then rub your eyes good and hard and take a 
look all around you," the fairy advised. "What do 
you see now?" 

"I see nothing but some horrid old crayons and 
some scraps of paper lying with some everyday scis- 
sors on our back porch," I grumbled. 

"Wow! How can you say that, you big blind 
bat," cried the fairy, jumping up and down with ex- 
citement — "I see, I see Cant you see it, too?" 

"Of course I can't!" 

"Well, take another look!" 

"It's no use," I repeated. But the fairy waved the 

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HOW TO FIND FUN 

clover as if it were a wand and the funniest thing 
happened: the crayons began to draw something on 
the paper and while I watched, it turned out that 
they were coloring four-leaved clovers with green 
crayon and the scissors that were on the back porch 
began to cut the picture-clovers out just as fast as 
the crayons made them! And then I saw that there 
were two fairies there and not just the one! 

"Why, why," I laughed. "Isn't this funny! Who 
are you? Is this the fun?" 

"We are Happy Thought and Nimblefingers," the 
fairies explained. "Happy Thought finds fun every- 
where even in everyday things and Nimblefingers 
makes a magic with scissors or crayons or something 
and turns it into play." 

"You might tell me about the fun," said I. "I 
was just wishing for some. Maybe this is mine." 

"If you will do what Nimblefingers is doing, you 
can make your own magic fun," returned Happy 
Thought. "This fun we have just thought of and 
made is a party." 

"Oh, oh," cried I, "I think a party is the most fun 
of anything I know. How do the paper clovers 
make a party?" 

"It's a Lucky Party," both fairies chimed in. "Ask 
Play how to do it?" And then I saw that there was 
a third little fairy standing right beside me and fairly 
hopping up and down to attract my attention. It 
had probably been there all the time, only I hadn't 
seen it at all. 

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"You can have a party out of almost everything," 
the fairy, Play, laughed. "Almost anything you can 
play with will make a party if it's a game that you 
can share with other children. This party is a Lucky 
Party and you put numbers on the paper clovers and 
hide them everywhere where you are allowed to 
amuse yourself indoors at home. You put them under 
the sofa, under the mat, on the bookshelf, behind sofa 
pillows, back of the scrapbasket, under the table — 
everywhere. And then you ask your brothers and 
sisters and the children next door to come and help 
you play a party game with them." 

"How?" 

"Why, you have a four-leaved clover hunt, of 
course! See who can find the most! Make about 
fifty clovers — it takes no time to make them. The 
one who finds most clovers or wins the highest score 
of numbers will be so lucky he will win a prize." 

"What kind of a prize?" I inquired. "I haven't 
any money except the two dollars and fifty-six cents 
that is in my china bunny-bank that came from Japan. 
I don't want to spend that. I'm saving up to buy 
myself a toy flying-machine." 

Happy Thought considered. "Prizes are almost 
everywhere," she declared. "Haven't you some lit- 
tle toy you could give as a prize, just for the sake 
of making fun?" 

"I have an apple up in my room," I suggested. 
"It's a lovely red apple and I want it myself but I 
could give it as a prize, maybe." 

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"Do it up in a pretty crepe paper napkin and tie 
it in a little package — a very pretty package," 
laughed Nimblefingers. "It's ever so much more of 
a prize if it's done up nicely in tissue paper, don't 
you think so?" 

I nodded. "Maybe I have something nicer," I 
suggested. "Maybe I'll think of something. There 
could be other prizes and the apple could be booby 
prize. I know how to make very pretty candy-boxes 
out of wallpaper. One cuts out a triangle about ten 
inches in size and one folds and folds till one has 
made a box with a triple cover. Maybe Mother 
would let me have nuts to put inside or some animal 
crackers or something. And — ^wait a bit! Wait a 
bit — I have a brand-new rubber eraser that would 
be a prize. I know how to draw the funny figure 
of a man upon it. I will tie a ribbon about his neck 
to make a necktie. One just draws the face and the 
dress on the blank side of the long rubber eraser. 
It would be a fine prize to win. All the children 
I know want me to make them to carry to school 
in pencil-boxes. Most anybody would be glad to 
have one!" 

So I made the prizes and did them all up nicely 
in colored crepe paper. Nimblefingers helped me 
tie them with bright strands of colored rafiia and odd 
bits of narrow ribbon that I had. Then I thought 
of something else. 

"How about invitations and refreshments?" 

"Refreshments!" The fairies seemed puzzled. 

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"Things to eat/' I explained. "One always has 
something to eat at a party." 

"Bread and butter," cried Happy Thought. 

"Bread and butter sandwiches/' corrected Nimble- 
fingers. 

"Make-believe it's ice-cream," laughed Play. "One 
can have a splendid time just pretending. I know 
a little girl who can make a whole party out of a 
lump of sugar. I do! She divides the lumjp into four 
bits and each one is make-believe differwm. She and 
her sister have the party on an old cherry stump in 
the back-yard. The ^party' is ice-cream, cake, candy, 
and pink lemonade." 

"But I want real things to eat," I insisted. "I 
don't want to play that I have them. What could 
I have at a party I made myself just for fun?" 

"I suppose," suggested Happy Thought, ^'that 
might depend upon your Mother or your Daddy or 
your — ^your governess, maybe. Perhaps it might de- 
pend upon the cook or whether you could make your 
own refreshments. Can you cook?" 

"I know how to boil an egg; I can make toast 
without burning it; I have helped Mother make 
peanut-butter sandwiches; I know how to squeeze 

lemons and make lemonade Oh, and once I made 

some cocoa!" 

"Then you could go right ahead and make your 
party yourself," laughed Happy Thought. "You 
might make jelly sandwiches in place of peanut-but- 
ter or make bread-and-butter sandwiches. Wouldn't 

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Party Candy-Boxes Cut from Wallpaper. 




Party Letter Paper Stenciled with Water Color Paints. 



HOW TO FIND FUN 

they be enough 'party' with some cocoa or lemon- 
ade?" 

I nodded. ''If it were to be a very, very big party, 
I'd like ice-cream," I mused. "But, of course. Moth- 
er would plan that kind of a party for me and Cook 
would fix the things. I wouldn't need to bother." 

"Can you fix up a party table?" asked Nimble- 
fingers, "because I can show you how, if you don't 
know. I can make very pretty tablecloths, I can!" 

"How?" 

"Well," admitted Nimblefingers, "they do cost 
something. They cost ten cents at the ten-cent store. 
I buy white crepe paper cloths and napkins and I 
decorate them myself. Really, it may sound funny 
but it really is beautiful: I cut paper flowers from 
wallpapers and paste them in a border all around 
my cloth. I paste them on lily-cups and napkins 
and on cardboard handles that I fasten to picnic 
plates with paper fasteners to make sandwich trays. 
One can make a lovely table decoration with ten cents 
and some pretty flowered wallpaper." 

"I'll try it," I agreed. "I could shake ten cents 
out of the bunny-bank, perhaps. How about invi- 
tations? Don't parties usually have invitations?" 

Play smiled. "One doesn't really need them — not 
for little parties. Make the invitation by telephone 
or run over to your playmate's home and ask the 
children there to come to the party. Be sure not to 
forget that all the children might like to come. Don't 
ask just one and leave out the little one, if she could 

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come. You don't like to stay at home when your 
sister goes to a party, do you?" 

"But the little brothers and sisters are in the way," 
I objected. "I don't want them." 

"They aren't in the way at all," snapped Happy 
Thought. "You are in the way yourself when you 
talk like that. I shan't like you if you say that 
again. You are the one who is in the way: you're 
in the way of their fun, you are! Haven't you heard 
it said that ^The more there are, the merrier it is'?" 

"We aren't talking about invitations," I avoided. 
"Supposing that I wanted to have a party with real 
written invitations that could be sent by the postman 
— could I make a magic with everyday paper and 
make something lovely for party invitations?" 

"You could buy an everyday box of letter paper 
and stencil it with beautiful designs. That would 
make splendid party invitation paper. Stencil en- 
velopes, too." 

"You'd have to buy the stencil unless you could 
make some yourself," put in Happy Thought. 
"Japanese stencils come in boxes that cost about 
twenty-five cents. But you could easily cut a stencil 
of a four-leaved clover in some bit of heavy wallpaper 
or paper cut from the cover of a pamphlet. Three- 
and four-leaved clovers are easy to draw. Just cut out 
the drawing and paint with as dry a brush as pos- 
sible over the opening in the paper. Dry the brush 
on blotting-paper before you use it to paint the 
stencil on the letter paper." 

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HOW TO FIND FUN 

*'Hooray!" I cried. "What fun! Let's try it! I 
want to play the party right away. Let's go into 
the house and you help me!" 

So the fairies went with me into the house and 
we began to make the party fun. It was to be a fun 
party made from almost nothing at all but ordinary 
everyday things. We thought we'd ask about three 
or four children from next door, if their mother 
would let them come. There wasn't going to be 
much beside lemonade and cake or bread and butter 
and cocoa but there was going to be a splendid FUN 
and a very, very happy time indeed. 

The Happykid's the kind of child 

That's happy all the day: 

He's happy in the schoolroom 

And happy when at play; 

No stormy rain or winter wind 

Makes Happykiddie blue — 

He finds no end of happy games 

And jolly things to do! 

The happiness of Happykid 

Is very much worth while 

For every one who sees him 

Is sure to catch his smile : 

They cannot help but smile right back — 

Like measles and the mumps, 

Real cheerfulness is catching 

As well as horrid grumps ; 

So don't you be a Grumpykid 

To sulk and whine and pout — 

The Happykid 's the youngster 

Folks love to have about ! 

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THE PARTY MADE FROM ALMOST 
NOTHING AT ALL 

It was in the morning that Nimblefingers, Happy 
Thought and I had decided to start a party. We 
found out that Carol, Dorothy, and Richard could 
come. That would make a party of four. (I count 
the fairies and myself as one, you know.) I told 
the children to come dressed in costume. It 
sounded something like Cinderella's ball but the cos- 
tumes were mostly things we had worn at school 
entertainments. Carol's dress was made for a But- 
terfly Drill. It was green crepe paper sewed onto 
an underslip. Paper butterflies had been pasted 
here and there all over it. Dorothy went to Kin- 
dergarten and didn't have anything but a Hallowe'en 
cap and an Indian play-suit but we thought she 
could wear a wreath of some artificial flowers that 
she had and with a pink gingham dress and a little 
bouquet, her costume might represent Spring. Rich- 
ard had an apron that he used in school in manual 
training class, carpentry. He carried a hammer and 
said he was in the costume of Carpenter. (If Elea- 
nore could have come, she had a costume of a wood- 
nymph, and if Marjorie had been at home, she had 
a fairy dress with gauze wings that she might have 

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Our Party Table Set for a "Four-year-old-Birthday." 



PARTY MADE FROM ALMOST NOTHING 

worn. And if Francis had come with Eleanore, she 
could have borrowed a Puritan costume that Rich- 
ard's sister had.) 

One can make up a party costume very easily. 
Even newspapers will be useful, if there is no cloth; 
but I won't tell you about newspapers yet because 
that is going to be a party all by itself and I'll 
keep it for a surprise later on. I will tell how 
Nimblefingers taught me to make masks, too. 

As this was to be my first lucky funcraft party, 
Mother let me make some lemonade and have some 
cake. I am going to show you in a picture how 
pretty our party table looked. You will see in the 
center of the table the Jack Horner Pie that had 
four of my little plaything toys put into it for party 
favors. Shall I tell you how to make it? 

First, cut a nine-inch circle of cardboard and make 
another exactlv the same size. 

Next, cut two strips of soft green crepe paper each 
about a yard and a quarter long and one wider than 
the other by a half inch. Take some paste and, after 
you have covered the circle neatly with the same 
shade of colored tissue crepe, gather the strips of 
paper, beginning with the wider one to start, and 
pasting the edge around the upper cardboard crepe- 
covered circle. Afterwards, gather the other on top 
of it and you will have made a ruffled flat center- 
piece on which to rest your Jack Horner Pie. (If 
you like, you can do without this bit of decoration 
and use just the Jack Horner Pie to stand alone. 

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The ruffled circle just adds style. At an everyday 
fun party you may not need it though it is well 
to know how to make a table unusually lovely — 
and you can add this touch to its daintiness some 
time for a special birthday party where there is to 
be ice-cream, maybe, and where Mother and Cook 
plan the things to eat.) 

The Jack Horner Pie itself is just a broad strip 
of pink crepe paper about twelve inches wide and 
a yard long. Paste the two ends together and make 
a bag after you have gathered and pasted the strip 
around two cardboard circles as you made the ruf- 
fle. A strip of dark green crepe paper cut six or 
eight inches wide and snipped irregularly into points 
may be pasted under the base of the bag to make a 
finish and suggest the green leaves of a big pink 
flower. 

The favors that go into a Jack Horner Pie are 
usually little toys. One might use lollypops. One 
might use paper snappers and party caps, if one 
wanted to, inside. Sometimes, if Nimblefingers has 
no toys to use as favors, she cuts jokes out of papers 
and lets the party guests read them. 

I suppose you know how the Jack Horner Pie 
works: there should be a little gift for every one 
who is asked to the party. Each little gift is wrapped 
in tissue paper and a long ribbon is tied to it. The 
ends of these ribbons are outside the pie. At a given 
signal, *'One, two, three!" everybody must pull hard, 
taking a ribbon end. Then out come the surprises! 

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Party Prizes that Anybody Can ^Fake for Fun. 




A Jack Horner Pie Made Like a Bag with Crepe Paper. 



PARTY MADE FROM ALMOST NOTHING 

Oh, don't you think that that is fun! 

Nimblefingers said that it was the nicest thing 
she knew. I thought so, too. 

Carol, Richard and Dorothy came over about half- 
past two that afternoon. They wore their party cos- 
tumes and I was the hostess. I showed them where 
to take off their wraps and then I told them about 
the everyday luck that was finding fun everywhere 
in the things that were right at home. I told them 
about my clovers — by that time the play fairies had 
flown away and hidden but I told the children about 
them just the same. Carol and Richard and Dor- 
othy at once said that they were going to look for 
fun the same way and make a party and ask me to 
it, too! 

We hunted for the paper clovers that Nimblefin- 
gers had made. It was really fun! It took quite a 
good bit of our afternoon, for I had forgotten where 
I put them myself and when there was just one left 
and nobody could find it, we wondered who could 
find the last! 

It was under a box on the table and Dorothy found 
it! Then we added up the numbers on the clovers 
we had found. My score was fifteen; Carol's was 
twenty-one; Richard had fifty-six and Dorothy won 
with ninety-three. I gave her the prize of the rubber 
eraser done up in tissue paper. She thought it was 
lovely. I didn't keep the apple that was the booby 
prize, for I was hostess and the hostess doesn't keep 

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a prize she may win: I gave it to Carol and Carol 
took it home to eat. 

After the clover hunt, we played games. We knew 
quite a number: Bird, Fish, Animal was one. To 
play it you must have a pencil and sit in a circle. 
One person is chosen It. The one chosen turns to 
any player he may wish and points with the pencil 
saying either, ^'Bird" or "Beast" or "Fish." Then 
he counts as fast as he can, "One, two, three, four, 
five!" And before he reaches "five!" the one pointed 
to must give the name of an animal, or a bird, or a 
fish. Sometimes one can't think in such a hurry. 
Then one has to change and be It. And the same 
animal, or bird or fish mustn't be named more than 
once! 

One can play charades, hide the thimble, corner- 
tag, spin-the-plate, magical music, and other party 
games. One may also play board games, if one has 
them. 

Carol's mother told her to come home at five, so 
we had the lemonade and cake at a quarter to four 
and hid the paper clovers all over again, just for fun. 
There wasn't to be a prize for the second time and 
Richard hid them. We couldn't find them all but 
it didn't matter because the clock struck and we had 
to hustle Carol into her coat. We all agreed that a 
fun made out of almost nothing at all was really FUN 
and that we'd had a splendid afternoon. 

I'm going to tell you in this book about some of 
the funcraft parties that were like my lucky party 

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and you can make their magic yourself in your own 
home. I know you'll have fun and that my fairies 
Nimblefingers, Happy Thought and Play will help 
you, too. 

A butterfly is just a little thing, 
A bit of sunlit joy on golden wing; 
We, like the butterfly, may in our play 
Live joyous in the sunlight every day. 

A butterfly may seem so very small, 

It scarcely counts for anything at all — 

Yet it is pleasant in the summer hours 

To find it friendly w^ith the garden flow^ers. 

Most every little tiny thing, I guess. 
May hold a vs^inged soul of happiness — 
Just like the butterfly of joy, 
We may be butterflies, my girl and boy! 

For, in the garden w^here we meet for fun. 
There's only sunlight when we seek the sun: 
And though our pleasure is a little thing, 
Yet it may always flit on golden wing. 



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A NEW YEAR'S PARTY 

Material Required to Make a New Year's Party 
Game: The numbers from some very large busi- 
ness calendar and some advertising calendars with 
sheets that tear off each month. 

It might be gay to have a little fun party on New 
Year's Day. At it, you can play a New Year's Game 
with some beans and some old calendars. At New 
Year's time one can always find plenty of calendars 
for banks and grocery stores — drugstores and busi- 
ness firms all give them away for the asking. 

When your friends come, pin some month of the 
year in a calendar sheet upon each back where it 
cannot be read except by others. Each must guess 
what month is on his back. He can only do this 
by asking questions about his month like this: ^'Do 
apples grow in my month?" He may never directly 
ask, ''Am I August?" or, ''Am I October?" It should 
be, "Are there thundershowers in my month?" One 
may often guess quickly by asking about holidays: 
"Does Christmas come in my month?" or, "Does 
Thanksgiving come in my month?" 

When every one has finally guessed, you may play 
a blindfold game with sheets cut from a big busi- 

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ness calendar that has leaves to tear off each day. 

Arrange at one end of the room a big blank sheet 
of paper low enough for every child to reach. Give 
each in order as he has guessed his month, a number 
taken in order from the big daily calendar. 

Blindfold each child in turn. Let him have a pin 
and go toward the big blank sheet of paper to put 
his 'May" on the calendar. He must put his pin 
into the first thing his hand touches. The one to 
get his "date" or ''day" closest to the sheet of paper 
wins the game. 

Next, give each child a sheet of calendar that has 
one month's days. On these different sheets, cross 
off enough of the days to leave only twenty. On each 
sheet or month, cross off different days. ' 

Then cut up some sheet of a calendar month into 
squares. Put these in some small bag. 

Seat each child at a table with his month before 
him. Take one "day" at a time from your bag and 
call its number. The children who have that num- 
ber raise hands. Each is given a bean to place upon 
the calendars on that number. The first to fill his 
sheet, wins. 

For a prize, give some pretty fancy calendar. 

I wish you Happy New Year — 
May every single day 
Be full of fun and happiness 
And pleasantness and play! 



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JANUARY SNOWFLAKE FUN 

Material Required to Make Snowflake Fun: 
Some white pad paper, some colored cardboard. 

Tools Needed to Make Snowflake Fun: Scissors 
for every player and a jar of paste, some small 
saucer. 

Have you ever been out in a snowstorm and had 
snowflakes fall on your coat? Did you look at them 
and did you observe that each is a beautiful design, 
no two of them alike? The snowflakes are so tiny 
you wonder how so small a thing can be so perfect, 
and they melt so very quickly while you look at them 
that you have hardly time to compare one with an- 
other. But did you know that you could cut these 
lovely snowflake designs in white paper and repro- 
duce in large form the beautiful designs? To do 
this, you will need a pair of scissors, some thin pad 
paper that is white, and some paste and colored card- 
board. After you have made these snowflake pat- 
terns and know how to show other children how to 
make them, you can give a little funcraft entertain- 
ment to your friends if their mothers will let them 
come over to play. I will tell you about it. 

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First, you will have to know how to cut snow- 
flake designs from white pad paper. Find a small 
china saucer that is about three inches in diameter. 
Place it upon a sheet of white pad paper. Draw 
around the saucer's rim with a pencil till you have 
made a circle. Cover all your sheet with circles and 
be careful not to waste the paper but to arrange the 
drawn circles to best advantage and economy. 

When you have drawn the circles, cut each out. 
Each will make a different snowflake design. Isn't 
it strange that something round will be transformed 
to something that has points? 

If you look at the picture of the snowflake pat- 
terns in this book, you will see that each pretty pat- 
tern has six points and is star-shaped. It seems almost 
magic that the circle should change so with a few 
scissor-snips! Take a white paper circle and fold 
it evenly into half. Then fold the half twice, evenly, 
to make three folds. 

Now take your scissors and with them cut the 
edge at each folding of the circle. Unfold the circle 
and see the finished design! You may have to try 
several times before you become expert. Then, when 
you have learned the art, just see how many differ- 
ent patterns you can cut. You may try to reproduce 
the pine-tree forms that you see in the tiny snow- 
flakes outdoors. If you go to the big encyclopedia, 
you will find out all about the snow crystals and 
you will probably see pictures of various forms. I 

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think you will find it most interesting amusement 
for a stormy indoor day in January. 

Perhaps when you have learned about these things, 
you will want to show your friends and make a little 
funcraft ''party" at home. 

If you write an invitation write it something like 
this: 

Dear Playmate: 

If your mother will let you come to 
play with me for a few hours on Saturday 
afternoon, It would make me very happy. 
Some of the children that I know are go- 
ing to come over to have some fun and we 
are going to have a Snowflake Party in- 
doors. Please bring a pair of scissors with 
you. 

Your friend, 

WOPSIE. 

Now, when you have sent this note, you will be 
busy fixing things for the "play party." Any number 
of children may play the game and have fun with 
you but I should choose about three or not more 
than six, I think. There should be four large sheets 
of thin white pad paper for each child and you should 
have a large sheet of colored cardboard. Cut this 
cardboard into squares that are large enough to use 
for mounting the snowflake patterns. Have a little 
pan of starch paste or a bottle of library paste. You 
will not need more. 

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The largest table you can have to play upon will be 
right for the use you wish to make of it as a work- 
table. Place a chair for each child at the table. Give 
plenty of space. Cover the table with a white sheet, 
if you can have it — if not, place newspapers over it to 
catch the snippings of snowflakes. 

At each place where your guest is to sit, place 
four squares of colored cardboard and four sheets 
of white pad paper. At the center of the table and 
for use by all should be the paste with a good brush 
and a small china saucer. 

When all the children have come, tell them about 
the snowflakes and how to cut them. Then let each 
use the scissors he has brought and try the cutting 
himself. Each child may make more than four pat- 
terns but each has the chance to enter only four of 
his snowflake patterns in the snowflake contest and 
exhibition. Each may choose which of his designs 
he thinks best and may paste four of these on his 
cardboard cards. Work should be neat and well done, 
you must point out. 

Have each child write his name on the back of 
his four designs and hand them in. Then mix up all 
the designs so that nobody knows or remembers 
which belongs to another. Place all the cards in a 
row and let the children pass around another table 
where these are displayed. 

Each cardboard card should be numbered by you 
as it is placed on the table but nobody should be 
permitted to touch the cardboard designs of snow- 

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flakes after they are placed on exhibition and no child 
is permitted to tell which ones are his own. 

When all have looked at them, each chooses which 
one he thinks the best. Then he takes a slip of paper 
and writes the number down. This slip of paper is 
to be folded so that nobody can see the number writ- 
ten on it. Place all in a box that no player may 
touch. When all have placed their slips in it, take 
them out and see who received the most votes. If 
there is a tie, vote again. You may have a small 
prize for the one who is winner. I think you can 
manage that yourself. At ten-cent stores, you can 
sometimes find round boxes made to represent snow- 
balls. These are to be filled with nuts or a few small 
candies. This would make an appropriate prize 
but / think that a red apple done up carefully in 
cotton with its stem tied with ribbon to hold the cot- 
ton fast would look quite like a snowball and be 
a prize you could make yourself, don't you? 

A snowflake party will take about an hour's time 
and after it is over you may play other games or 
have some cocoa and crackers or cookies, if Mother 
thinks best. You will find it fun even without that, 
I think. 

Outside of my window there hung the toy house 
Of the little barometer man and his spouse; 
In stormy dark weather he stood in the rain, 
While his "Fair Weather" partner might call him in vain! 
When out came the sun, then he hurried inside — 
It was only a glimpse of his wife that he spied! 

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Here is Fun for Washington's Birthday. 



JANUARY SNOWFLAKE FUN 

While, If a storm threatened and Joan hastened in, 

It was always to find the house empty within ! 

(Oh, never together that couple might stay — 

Alas, the barometer made them that way!) 

In unsettled weather each wavered about, 

Reluctant to say which had better stay out; 

One fancied In passing, the two cried, '*Oh, dear! 

How cozy 'twould be If we both could stay near !" 

So tragic, indeed, was their fated distress 

I welcomed the temperature's changeableness. 

And when it poured torrents one day, and then froze, 

The barometer broke, and now no one knows 

What the weather will be — They're both inside the door 

And Darby will never leave Joan any more ! 

I'm glad they are happy, although I feel sad. 

For I miss the wise knowledge of snowstorms they had. 



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THE LINCOLN'S BIRTHDAY 
CELEBRATION 

Material Required to Make Games for the Lincoln's 
Birthday Party: a sheet of brown cardboard, some 
little penny flags and a picture of Abraham Lincoln. 

Tools Needed to Make the Games: a ruler, a pen- 
cil and scissors. 

Lincoln's Birthday comes on February 12th and 
maybe you and your friends will like to celebrate it 
with a little Funcraft Party at home. Such a cele- 
bration may be quickly arranged. You will need to 
buy a big sheet of cardboard that is colored brown 
and you will also need to have a penny flag for each 
child who is invited. 

Find some heavy white paper and cut it into 
cards, each about one by three inches. Find some red 
ribbon or blue ribbon that is narrow and, punching a 
hole in each card, tie one to the staff of each small 
flag. Write on each card the name of one of the 
children. Give each one of the guests a flag with 
the card when he arrives. These are to be kept to 
play the first game. 

The first game is made and played with a por- 
trait of Abraham Lincoln. You will probably have 

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some small picture that you can use. Place it upon 
a table at one end of the room. Next, count out 
among the guests for order of play in the game. 
Blindfold each in turn and see who can place his 
flag closest to the portrait. Flags must be laid flat 
on the table and put where the hand first touches 
— no fair feeling around! 

The prize for this game may be a postal-card pic- 
ture of Lincoln framed in small glass passepartout 
frame. It may be a little Lincoln's Day favor or a 
silk flag. 

After this game, there is another you may arrange 
to play. It will need to be made beforehand and it 
is played with strips of cardboard cut into narrow 
lengths to represent the logs with which you and your 
guests are to construct a small cabin. This is all a 
game. 

Take any large sheet of cardboard that is dark in 
color. Rule it the short way making it into strips a 
half inch wide. Rule the entire sheet off this way. 

Next, take half the sheet and cut its strips into four 
inch lengths. Mark a cross in pencil on the back of 
half of these. Turn them all back again so that no- 
body can guess if there is or is not a cross upon them. 
Mix all well and place these in the center of a big 
table around which you have put the guests' chairs. 

Take the other half of the paper and cut it into 
longer lengths, each about twenty-eight inches long. 
Divide these in two piles and mark crosses on half. 

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Then turn these over right side up again but put them 
in a second pile, well mixed. 

Seat the children around the table and tell them 
that they are to play a game with the strips of card- 
board and that the short bits of cardboard are to be 
used to build the outline of a log cabin. Each piece 
of cardboard represents one log and the cabin is to 
be made upon the table, flat like this : 



Each child, as his turn comes, may draw from the 
pile of short logs one log. He turns it over when 
drawn and then if there is a cross upon it, he may 
keep it. If there is a cross, he is entitled to choose 
another log and keep on drawing till he obtains a 
strip of cardboard that has none. Then play for him 
stops at that turn. 

The cabin's foundation is to be built first by plac- 
ing four of these logs in a row, allowing for doorway. 
The Lincoln cabin had just one window and one 
door, you remember. So after three logs are laid in 

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a row, leave a space for doorway and next place 
another flat log just beyond. Then, above this begin 
by making a window space as the diagram suggests. 
After the first log is placed to the left at the second 
row, skip one space for the window and lay another 
log. Then skip the door space and lay the next. The 
window must be two log lengths high and after this 
lay the logs right along for two upper rows. 

When a player has done this, he is allowed to 
start to make the cabin roof by choosing from the pile 
of long logs. The roof is merely made with two of 
these placed one above the other. 

To finish the roof with a chimney, choose from the 
first pile again and place two short logs one above 
the other. The player to make his cabin complete 
first wins the game. 

Award some little prize for this. It would be very 
nice to give a book, if you could do so. The books 
that Lincoln had as a boy were very few. They were 
Msop^s Fables, Robinson Crusoe, Pilgrim s Progress, 
The History of the United States, and Weem's Life 
of Washington, 

You may play some lively game chosen by the 
winning player, after this table game. Then you may 
use all the logs of the game again for another play. 
Place all the short ones face up on the table to rep- 
resent the rails that Lincoln split. You remember 
that when he was a young boy he had to buy his own 
clothes and he did any kind of work that came to 
hand. This paid him a small sum usually and it is 

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said that he once agreed to split rails for a pair of 
jeans, four hundred rails for every yard that was 
needed. Mark numbers upon half of the cardboard 
strips where the crosses are. Use numbers above ten. 
Then turn the strips back and mix them well. Play 
for the game is the same as for the former cabin- 
building. The player whose turn it is may choose 
a rail and keep on as long as he obtains a number. 
The one to make the sum of four hundred first wins. 
The game may be played in longer form by trying to 
buy six yards of stuff and this means that the one to 
obtain the winning six times is the real hero. The 
game may be played with sides, an even number of 
players to each. This is a quick way of playing. All 
scores are added together and the side to make 400 
six times wins. 

There was a rude log-cabin once, 

One window and a door 
Was all the cabin ever had — 

And only earth for floor. 

But in that little cabin 

There lived a child who grew 

To be the grandest hero 
That ever the world knew. 



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A WASHINGTON'S BIRTHDAY GAME 

Material Required to Make a Washington's 
Birthday Game: A sheet of white cardboard, some 
green paper that can be easily cut to make leaves, 
some brown manilla wrapping paper, some bright 
red paper. 

Tools Needed to Make a Washington's Birthday 
Game: Some paste and a pair of scissors. 

You may like to know of a game you can make 
and play with your friends on Washington's Birth- 
day. It will be easy to make a little cherry-tree 
and you can do all the work of preparation your- 
self. 

Buy a sheet of white cardboard or cut a yard of 
straight white cotton cloth from some old piece of 
goods you have at home. The cardboard or the cloth 
should be placed flat upon a table. 

Next, take the sheet of brown manilla paper and 
draw upon it the trunk of a small tree. From the 
upper part of the tree draw branches. Five or six 
of these are sufficient. 

From your green paper, cut a number of leaves, 
each about an inch or an inch and a half long. These 
should be placed with ends that join the tree's 

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branches. Put some paste at the end of each leaf 
and on its under side write some easy question that 
pertains to United States history. 

From the red paper, cut big round red cherries and 
on the under side write, "I cannot tell a lie." Some 
may have, ''I did it w^ith my little hatchet." 

On a cherry near the top of the tree write the 
date of Washington's birthday. Two games may be 
played with this cherry-tree. 

For the first game, blindfold the players in turn 
and see who can place a little red, white and blue 
ribbon-knot nearest to the date on the top of the 
tree. The one w^ho does this should receive some 
small reward. Perhaps you have a print of George 
Washington that you can frame yourself. Or you may 
give a wee flag. 

The second game that can be played is played with- 
out blindfolding. Each player in turn goes to the 
tree and chooses a leaf or a cherry. He does not 
know, of course, that the leaves and cherries are 
unlike in what is WTitten on them. If he chooses to 
pick a leaf from the tree, he must answer the his- 
torical question upon it. If he does this, he may have 
another turn — but the question must be answered in 
a correct way. If he chooses a cherry and receives, 
^T cannot tell a lie" or 'T did it with my little hatch- 
et," he must give a forfeit. 

At the close of the game, when all leaves are taken 
from the tree and when no cherries are left, the win- 
ner is the one who has answered most of the ques- 

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tions correctly. He may also impose all the forfeits 
and tell the other players how to redeem them. Then, 
in turn, each player must pay his forfeit for the 
amusement of all others. The forfeit may be a 
recitation or the singing of a song, or the telling of 
a joke. 

Be careful to impose no very hard forfeits and 
none that are dangerous. Make each contribute in 
some way to a celebration of the holiday: the speak- 
ing of a school piece about Washington, the telling 
of a story about W^ashington, or the recitation of 
some little verse or poem. 

After this game, you may have a cherry hunt and 
look for small red paper disks that are hidden about 
the room. The first one to find twenty-two, the date 
of the birthday in February, wins. 

After this, you can play games that are usually 
played at little party gatherings. If you have a real 
party there should be a Washington's Birthday cake. 
Small cardboard hatchets may easily be cut from 
cardboard to make place-cards. If you tie a bow of 
red, white and blue ribbon on these it makes them 
more festive. On the blade of the hatchet write 
the name of the guest. 

With these toy hatchets, later, you may see who 
can "cut down" the dismantled cherry-tree. Blind- 
fold each player in turn again. Mark off a certain 
place upon the trunk of the tree that shows where 
the trunk must be ''cut." See which player can 
place his hatchet upon it, and continue to play till 

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one successful player is able to do this. He is said 
to have cut down the cherry-tree and may choose 
the next game to play. 

George Washington, he was once small — 

Oh, just a little boy: 

They gave him a small hatchet 

That was a little toy; 

I wish they'd let me have one too — 

A little one, maybe — 

I'd like to have a hack with it 

At some old cherry-tree! 



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VALENTINE PUZZLE FUN: 

Material Required to Make Valentine "Puzzle 
Fun: Some empty envelopes, some pretty fancy pos- 
tal cards or other valentine cards, also an empty shoe 
box with its cover. 

Tools Needed to Make Valentine Puzzle Fun: 
Scissors, pen or pencil. 

Every one enjoys the fun of valentines! You may 
have a little gathering of your friends and make for 
them a Puzzle Party and a valentine mail-box. 

To make a valentine puzzle, take a pretty card 
and turn it over so that you can write upon its white 
side and not upon the picture. On this free side of 
the card write some valentine verse — not a long 
one: 

The rose is red, the violet blue, 
Sugar is sweet and so are you. 

or you may write: 

If you love me as I love you, 

No knife can cut our love in two. 

Sign your name to this, if you like. It may be part 
of the puzzle to solve the sender's name also. 

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When the cards have each been written, address 
the envelopes you wish to send to each friend. Then 
take your cards and, one at a time, cut each in irreg- 
ular pieces. Be sure to put the pieces of each card 
in one envelope and do not mix the pieces of differ- 
ent cards. One card should go into each envelope. 

Ask every little friend to bring with him some pos- 
tal card valentine without any writing upon it. Let 
him direct it to somebody at your little gathering. 

All are '^mailed" in the shoe box into the top of 
which you have cut a mailing-slit. Put the box upon 
a table and count out to see who shall be postman 
and distribute the valentines. 

Each must put the valentine you have sent him 
together in picture form. The first to do this should 
have some small prize — a candy heart or a valentine 
you have yourself made. It will be quite exciting 
if you tell your friends that the first one to make 
the picture and turn his valentine over so as to 
read its verse aloud will win the valentine game. 

Afterwards, if you like, all the different valen- 
tine pieces that were cut into puzzles may be mixed 
in one big heap upon a table and the one who can 
make a complete puzzle first will win another new 
valentine. 

Afterwards, you may play round games that you 
choose. If there are not many at the little party, 
let everybody choose one game to play. 

I am sure you will have ever so much fun. Pin 
a surprise of some valentine — either a red heart or 

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a penny valentine — to the coat of each little guest 
when you say good-bye. 

The postman brought a valentine — 

It was a postal card — 
I knew who sent the valentine 

For guessing wasn't hard : 
The wiggle-w^aggle writing there 

Could not be a disguise 
For Mother crosses t's that way, 

I've seen it with two eyes! 
Maybe she thought I didn't know — 

Maybe she thought I would 
Because she loves me all the time 

When I am very good. 



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FUN FOR VALENTINE'S DAY 

Material Required to Make Motto Candy Val- 
entines: A sheet of cardboard and about a pound of 
assorted motto candies. 

Tools Needed to Make Motto Candy Valentines: 
A pencil, some water-color paints or black and red 
ink, some paste, a pencil, some scissors, a ruler. 

Have you ever made valentines? Of course you 
have — but have you ever made them with motto 
candies? That is something quite interesting and 
new. With some cardboard cut to make mounts, a 
bag of heart-shaped motto candies of all shapes and 
sizes, you can make most amusing valentines. 

By reversing the candy hearts, so that the mottoes 
do not show, you can make odd little candy folk. 
When you have arranged the candies upon the col- 
ored cardboard, you will see that it is easy work. 
A small heart will be the head, perhaps; an oval 
candy will make the body; small hearts will form 
a string and make arms and legs. The skirt of a 
lady may be made with a triangular candy or with 
a square or oblong one. The trousers of a funny 
little man may be oblong candies. You will easily 

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see for yourself how the shapes may be adapted to 
picture-making. 

When you have made a picture, cut out a mount 
for it, if you have not done this first. Glue each 
candy in place upon it. Library paste will do. Be 
careful not to use too much glue or paste on your 
brush because none must push beyond the rim of the 
candy and make a mussy place. 

When you have glued your figures to the mount, 
take a fine paint-brush and outline eyes, nose, mouth 
on each motto candy person. If you have no paints, 
use crayon or red ink and black ink and a pen. You 
will need clean fresh pens, should you use ink. The 
eyes and nose may be drawn with black and the 
mouth be made with red. Then, if you have a paint- 
brush afterwards, dip your brush into the red ink and 
then into some water. Dry it off a little and dab 
the cheeks to make them red. Be careful not to make 
them too bright. Red buttons may be drawn on 
dresses, red necktie or ribbons may be drawn also. 

After this, find some motto that is funny and glue 
it so that its verse makes the verse of the valentine 
under your picture. 

Animals, houses, flowers, birds, butterflies, trees, 
in fact, almost everything you can think of, may be 
made in motto candy pictures. Even a funny St. 
Valentine himself may be represented. You should 
draw or paint a halo around his heart-shaped head 
— either in ink or gold paint. 

For making animals, use small hearts for ears, 

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medium-sized hearts for legs, and larger ones for 
bodies and heads. Very comic valentines may be 
constructed in this way. 

If you want to make a picture of a house, choose 
the largest motto candies you can buy. They often 
come two or three inches high. They sell "Two for 
a penny." Turn the heart over to stand upside down 
on the mount: the point will now be the peak of the 
roof. You may take red ink and color a red roof on 
the upper part of the candy. Then outline two win- 
dows and a door in black ink or black paint. You 
may make green blinds, too. On either side of the 
house you can make a tree out of a heart, inverted 
with a smaller inverted heart for its trunk. A green 
heart would be the right thing for a tree with a 
little brown candy to make the tree-trunk. 

Very pretty flower designs may be made. Five 
pink hearts turned over so that their mottoes do not 
show and points put together at a common center 
form a pretty wild rose. Small green candies will 
make a stem and leaves. In the same way, four green 
candies will suggest a four-leaved clover. 

Two heart-shaped candies joined with another two 
make wings of a butterfly. The body should be a 
long and narrow motto candy. 

Borders for valentine trimming may be made out 
of the very tiny hearts. Upon the colored cardboard 
mounts, the colored candies show up well. You may 
cut your cardboard mounts large or small. A good 

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size is seven or eight inches long and six or eight 
inches high. 

If you want to have some valentine fun with 
friends in honor of Valentine's Day, you may make 
a game to play with these motto candies. You may 
have a simple little party, on Valentine's Day, if 
you like. I will tell you how to make it. 

Your invitations — if you give them in a formal 
way in a little envelope, can be written upon paper 
that you cut heart-shaped. Take some good pad 
paper; cut a piece the size of your envelope; fold 
this to make a pattern. Fold it once and then cut 
half a heart in the paper. Unfold and you will have 
the pattern for your note-paper. Now, fold a piece 
of paper double the size of the envelope and put 
your pattern upon it. With your scissors cut out 
the shape of the note-paper leaving the edge where 
the fold comes uncut except at top and base. Then 
make as many of the sheets as you have invitations 
to write. Your little invitation may read like this: 

Please come and play, 
On St. Valentine's Day. 

If you like, you may print the invitation with red 
ink on pink paper and this will suggest a motto 
candy when you have painted a little red rim all 
around it at the rim of the paper. Use only one 
side of the paper and sign your name. Write the 
date. Give the hour, too. The invitation may be 
sealed with a wee red heart-shaped seal. To make 

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one, just take your scissors and cut some red hearts 
from paper. Paste one on the flap of each envelope. 

When you have sent these little invitations, you 
will have to prepare for the fun to come. Each 
little friend will need six cardboard cards. These 
you will need to cut yourself from sheets of red, 
green, yellow, and gray cardboard. Arrange a big 
table with chairs for each party guest. Place at each 
chair the four cardboard mounts. In the center of the 
table, have a jar of paste and two dishes with motto 
candies in them. 

Seat the children and show them how to make the 
valentines. After everybody has made a valentine, 
you should start a valentine picture contest. See 
who can make the best picture! Originality, neat- 
ness, cleverness of plan all count. Put the pictures 
in a row and let everybody cast a vote for the one 
he thinks the best. Award a prize of a big fancy 
valentine. 

After this game has been played, you may play 
one of matching hearts. To make this, you will need 
a sheet of red paper. Cut out half as many hearts 
from it as there are little guests. Cut each heart 
zigzag through its center in a different way. Give 
a half a heart to each child and see who can match 
pieces first. 

If you want to have a valentine mail-box, you 
may make one from a big cardboard box merely by 
cutting a mail-slit in the side of the box. Give 
every child present some paper to wrap up the val- 

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entines that have been made from motto candies and 
let everybody direct his to somebody present. After 
all are mailed, distribute them as directed. Be quite 
sure to have in the valentine mail-box one valentine 
for each little guest so that nobody will be overlooked. 
You can put these in yourself when you make the 
mail-box before the party. 

You may serve glasses of lemonade at your party. 
Tie a red paper heart to each glass tumbler and put 
all the tumblers on a tray. If you have cake, have 
small cup-cakes and place on each a motto candy. 
This is easy to do. Your mother will make a little 
white sugar icing and this may be used under each 
candy to fasten it to a cake. Or, if you use one large 
cake, the candies may be used to trim it in the same 
way. Place them in a circle all around the rim of 
the cake and in designs upon its top. Perhaps you 
can make a motto candy picture. If you do, don't 
use paint upon the candies as it may be poisonous. 
And after the candies are inked or painted, they are 
merely meant for play — not to eat. 

You may have a heart hunt by cutting small hearts 
out of paper. Let some older person hide these all 
around the room and then see who can find the most 
hearts. I am sure you will think of other jolly games 
to play. 

I made a funny valentine for somebody to-day, 

I made it with red paper that I'd put aside for play — 

I'll tell you how I made it for I made it all alone 

And you might like to make one, too, all for your very own. 

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I cut a square of paper and I folded It in half, 

And then I cut a half a heart and tried to make it laugh — 

I cut a funny smily mouth, a little nose, one eye — 

And when I opened out the heart, it did laugh, for, oh ! my !- 

There was a happy smiling face a-laughing just like mine 

And so I gave my Happy Heart to mine own Valentine! 



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Some Valentines Made \V^ith Motto Candies. 




Some Games to Play on St. Patrick's Day, March 17th. 



FUN FOR ST. PATRICK'S DAY 

Material Required to Make St. Patrick's Day 
Games: A sheet of white cardboard, some toy pigs, 
green paper, a small-sized cardboard box. 

Tools Needed to Make St. Patrick's Day Games: 

Scissors, crayons, and a few pins. 

St. Patrick's Day is March seventeenth. At that 
time, the shops begin to show all manner of funny 
little Irish dolls, toy pigs, shamrocks, and green bows. 
These are all meant for St. Patrick's Day fun but you 
can make your fun yourself just with crayons and 
scissors and you can have a fun party after school, 
maybe. 

I dare say that you draw at school and that you 
have a box of crayons ; so first, take a sheet of card- 
board and outline the head of an Irish paddy. He 
should be simply drawn like the paddy in this St. 
Patrick's fun party here in your book. Do not put 
the pipe in his mouth. That is slipped in there and 
is another part of the game. The hat should be 
green. The hair of the man should be red and you 
may make his suit green or brown. 

Next, cut the outline of a pipe about three inches 
long. Use this for a pattern and cut as many more 

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pipes from thin cardboard as there are to be players. 
Write each player's name upon his pipe. Give each 
player a pin. 

Blindfold each player with a big thick handker- 
chief or towel. Do this in turn, one after the other 
when you have counted out to get the right order 
for play. Then turn the player who is starting three 
times. At the last turn, start him straight toward 
the picture of the Irishman you have drawn on the 
cardboard and hung low enough to reach easily when 
the player's hand is outstretched from the shoulder. 

Tell the player to try to put the pipe in the mouth 
of Paddy. He must put his pin into the first thing 
he touches. And then wait his new turn to try again, 
if unsuccessful. You will all laugh to see where 
Paddy's pipe goes! 

Of course, everybody will play fair and be prop- 
erly blindfolded! You may play the game till some- 
body gives Paddy his pipe where it should go — right 
in his mouth! If you like, you can give as a prize 
for this a small green ribbon bow mounted on a long 
pin and meant to pin upon a dress or coat. Any 
little toy piggie will be a good prize, too — or a soap- 
bubble pipe! 

Another game you can play is to try to put a sham- 
rock in Paddy's hat-band. You may cut the sham- 
rocks like large clovers, three-leaved. Mount them 
each on thin cardboard and cut them out again. Use 
them to play the blindfold game as you used the 
pipes. 

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Another game Is played with little toy pigs. You 
may make a pig-pen for them using the half of some 
cardboard box. If you like, you may make it with 
a gate that opens. Place it upon a table where play- 
ers may reach it easily. See who, blindfolded, can 
put Paddy's pig into the pen. No fair feeling around, 
mind you! Put the pig down as soon as you touch 
something! 

If you like, you may cut paper pigs to use in play- 
ing this game. They are first cut in pattern from 
thin white paper and then the pattern is used to 
make other pigs that are cut with scissors and fin- 
ished up with markings of crayons. 

A St. Patrick's card game is not hard to make 
either. Draw on a sheet of cardboard twenty-five 
cards. If you use a ruler and measure, it will be easy 
to make all the same size. Each card should be about 
two inches wide and about four inches high. 

When you have made all and cut them out, write 
upon one, St. Patrick. Number the others, two and 
two alike beginning with I. There should be two 
of I, two of //, two of III and so on up to twelve. 

To play the game, place all the pack together and 
mix the cards well. Don't let any of the players 
see what the cards are. Any number up to six may 
play. Deal the cards out face down, one at a time 
to each player, dealing to your left. There will be 
one extra card. Never mind who has it. That will 
not really matter. 

As soon as all the cards are distributed, each play- 

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er matches the numbers on his cards. He puts those 
of like number together and discards all that are 
matched. These should be put face down before each 
player and no player may tell what he is discarding. 
The object of the game is to hold the card named St. 
Patrick after all cards are matched. 

When all have discarded like cards, the player at 
the dealer's right offers the dealer an exchange of 
cards. Nobody may see what card he is choosing. 
Backs should be kept straight toward the one who 
draws a card. As soon as any player draws a card 
that matches one in his hand already, the two are 
discarded and he obtains another turn to draw from 
the same player. 

Exchange goes on till players drop out, one by 
one, and at last, the final matching is done with un- 
usual excitement. The winner holds St, Patrick's 
card. 

I think you will find this a jolly game to play al- 
most any day! 

Just after Valentines, you know, 
That is the time when shamrocks grow — 
In all the windows they are seen 
A-growing in their pots all green: 
Where do they come from every year? 
Across the sea from Ireland here? 
It would be far across the sea 
To travel over here to me! 



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THE TOPSY-TURVY FUN FOR APRIL 

FIRST 

Materials Required to Make Topsy-Turvy Fun 
Party: A sheet of thin cardboard, some colored 
crepe papers, some waxed paper and white paper, 
tissue paper. 

Tools Needed to Make a Topsy-Turvy Game and 
Topsy-Turvy Fun: Scissors, pen or pencil, paste. 

Any day in the year is appropriate for Topsy-Tur- 
vy fun, but April first is the time when, perhaps, 
everybody will appreciate it most. It is not nice to 
play practical jokes on that day, but a fun party will 
be just the thing for merriment. You should plan 
for your Topsy-Turvy fun beforehand by sending 
your friends topsy-turvy invitations written in topsy- 
turvy writing. That sounds interesting, doesn't it! 

This is the way to write topsy-turvy writing: take 
a sheet of paper — pad paper. Use a pencil to write 
upon it. Write your invitation as you would write 
anything in the usual way. The invitation may be 
something like this: 

Dear Wopsie: 

If you can come to see me on the after- 
noon of April first, we will have a good 

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time with some other friends. We are go- 
ing to play a Topsy-Turvy Game and just 
have fun. I hope you can come. 
Your friend, 

TOPSY. 

When this is written, take a piece of thin tissue 
paper and transfer the writing wrong side to the 
sheet of paper you expect to send as invitation. When 
it is transferred, go over the writing of pencil in 
ink. The writing must be clear enough to hold to a 
mirror. When held up to a mirror, the writing can 
easily be read right. It looks, however, very unusual 
and queer on the invitation. 

If you have asked your mother's permission to have 
the fun, she will not mind your doing some unusual 
things that are funny and appropriate for that day 
— though not for other days. It is really an April 
Fool party. 

You might arrange the table in your play-room 
topsy-turvy upside-down and the chairs in the 
same way and tie to each a card with April Fool 
upon it. 

Every little guest should have a foolscap that you 
have made beforehand. You may easily take some 
newspaper, roll it into a cone, cover it with some 
pretty Dennison crepe paper and paste around its 
border a rim of pictures cut from crepe paper or col- 
ored magazine prints. At the top of each pointed 
cap there should be tied a yard of narrow ribbon 

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and each cap should fit within the other. These 
make a fitted ^^nest" and when each child has 
chosen an end of ribbon, each in turn pulls from the 
"nest" his foolscap. At the end of the cap's ribbon 
is a small card with April Fool written on it. 

Every one should put on his cap. 

The game of Topsy-Turvy should begin right 
after this. You may turn the table and chairs back 
and play at the table. It is a card game and you 
will need to draw the cards upon a sheet of card- 
board, make the game and arrange all this before the 
"party." 

Draw on the cardboard with pencil and ruler, mak- 
ing sixty cards. This sounds like a great deal of 
work but it will take only a few minutes when you 
rule by measure on your cardboard. Make each card 
about three by two inches. Cut each out. Divide 
the pack into two packs of thirty cards each. On 
the thirty cards in one pack write the word topsy, 
wrong side transferred as you wrote your invitations. 
On the thirty other cards write the name turvy in 
the same way. A pack of sixty cards will answer for 
as many as six players. Any number under this may 
play the game. 

All cards must be well mixed and shuffled before 
starting to play the game. Deal out one at a time, 
face downwards to each player, beginning to the left 
of the dealer. 

No player may look at the cards in his pile. 

When all are dealt out, the dealer begins the 

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game by turning over his top card quickly so that 
all can see what it is. He puts this card in front of 
his pile. The next player to his left follows suit and 
the next and next as fast as possible. All must watch 
the cards carefully for when topsy and turvy oc- 
cur, the first one to call out "Topsy-Turvy" wins 
such cards as his opponent may have placed upon his 
second pile. If he does not himself have one of the 
matching words but if he is the first to see the 
^'match," then he wins the piles of the two players. 
(Where there is any doubt as to who first said "Top- 
sy-Turvy," nobody may take any of the cards but 
play continues till next matching.) 

The one to gain all the cards wins the game. The 
players who do not obtain new cards take up their 
second piles and use them over and over for play, 
shuffling them anew each time they need cards to 
turn over and start anew. 

For a prize for the April Fool Game, give an April 
Fool Doll made of paper braided. This is the way 
to make a doll: Take some white crepe paper about 
three or four folds ten inches long. At one end, tie 
a string to make a knob for a dolPs head. The string 
forms the neck. Next, where the dolPs waist should 
come, tie another string. At the waist, divide the 
paper into two halves for legs. Cut each half, if 
you like, into three strands and braid these three to 
make each one leg. At the ankle, tie a string to make 
a foot and cut both feet and legs evenly. The doll's 
arms are strands of braided paper forced through the 

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upper part of the paper body. The doll should have 
a colored paper foolscap on his head. Eyes, nose, 
mouth may be cut from black paper and pasted on 
or may be outlined with water-color paints on the 
doll's head. 

After the prize is awarded, you must pass the 
"refreshments," and these are April Fool candy sticks 
that look so real you will feel they are good enough 
to eat as well as to fool and make fun with. 

These candy sticks are easy to make. You will 
need to make one for each guest. To make a stick 
of April Fool "peppermint," begin by rolling a tube 
of thin cardboard to the size and length of an or- 
dinary stick of candy. Paste the tube together and 
cover it with white crepe paper pasted on smoothly. 
After this, cut very straight and narrow strips of 
red tissue paper and run one around and around your 
candy tube to look like the stripe in peppermint 
sticks. Paste the red strip lightly here and there. 
Roll each "stick" in a roll of waxed paper twisted 
at either end, and when you have finished, nobody 
will ever detect the "fool" till the waxed paper is 
removed. It surely is fun! 

Molasses sticks should be made in the same way 
but of brownish tan paper with dark brown paper 
strips. Red candy sticks may need no stripe. You 
may make an assortment and pass them around. 

I think everybody will like your party. You can 
pin an April Fool label on every coat and hat to be 
found when little guests seek their wraps to go home. 

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But remember never to make personal practical jokes 
and never do anything that will hurt. Have fun but 
don't be impolite. Never do anything that may hurt 
another's feelings. Just have a jolly good time at 
your April Fool Topsy-Turvy party. 

Maybe that April First's the time 

To make a funny joke — 
But you should be quite careful 
At whom your fun you poke: 

Some people have a sense of fun — 
But other people, they have none! 

Maybe that some one plays a joke 

That is a joke on you 
And you can't chuckle at yourself 
The way the others do: 

Some people have a sense of fun — 
But other people, they havQ none! 

Maybe that April First's the day 
When you should have a care 
To make no jokes that are unkind 
And every one can't share : 

Some people have a sense of fun — 

In unkind jokes, you'll find there's none! 



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April Fool Candy, Foolscaps." and an April Fool Doll. 




Games to Play at an Easter Party or for Fun in April. 



EASTER-TIME FUN 

Materials Required to Make Easter-Time Fun: 

Some cardboard, some pictures of Easter bunnies and 
chicks, some artificial flowers, Easter toys, white pad 
paper, pin-wheel papers, crepe papers, cotton bat- 
ting, blown egg-shells. 

Tools Needed to Make Easter Fun: Crayons, 
paste, pins, a pencil, scissors. 

If you want to make your own Easter-time fun 
with your own friends, you can make an Easter Egg 
Hunt and play games after it. These will be Easter 
games and played with chicks, bunnies, and flowers. 

The games are very simple and easy to make. If 
you have the picture of a big bunny, cut the bunny 
out and paste him upon a sheet of cardboard. The 
bunny should be at least twelve inches long. I cut 
my bunny from some Dennison crepe paper that was 
meant for Easter decoration. If you use the same 
thing, be careful to paste only around the rim of the 
cut-out, as the crepe paper stretches out of shape un- 
less it is so handled. The bunny game is to be a 
blindfold game like Donkey Party. Each player is 
given a little round of white pad paper upon which 
a bit of white cotton has been pasted to make a cotton 

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bunny taiL Every player's name is written on the 
paper at the back. A pin is run through the cotton 
tail and every player, when blindfolded, in turn must 
try to pin his cotton tail on the '^cottontail." 

The one to do this successfully may lead out in 
the next game or receive a prize. The next game is 
played with artificial flowers. Upon a piece of card- 
board about twelve by fifteen inches, draw with your 
crayons a flower-pot and the stem and leaves of a 
plant that has no flowers. Hang this picture up as 
you hung the rabbit's picture at one end of your room 
low enough to be reached with outstretched straight 
arm. 

Give each player a pretty artificial flower of some 
different variety. Count out for order of play. 
Blindfold each player in turn and see who can put 
his flower on the plant. The play continues till one 
player is successful. 

After this, you may take a pretty Easter basket 
and lay it on a distant table. It should be arranged 
like a little nest. You may play a similar game to 
the bunny and flower game by cutting little yellow 
paper chicks from paper, mounting each on card- 
board, writing the player's name one upon each. 
Blindfold the players in turn and see who can put 
the chicks in the nest. You may play the game with 
white cotton bunnies that come ''six for five" at the 
ten-cent store or with small downy cotton chicks, 
sold at Easter everywhere and made of yellow cot- 
ton. 

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You, of course, know what fun an Easter Egg Hunt 
is. If you live far away from a city, you cannot, 
perhaps, have the tiny candy eggs that are often used 
for this. But you may cut egg-shapes from colored 
cardboards and paste pretty scrap-pictures or pic- 
tures cut from magazines upon them, making cards. 
Or you may just cut colored cardboard cards, egg- 
shaped. These should have numbers on the back of 
each one. No tgg should be numbered like another. 
Better number all at once and run the numbers in 
a series. You can make a great many egg-cards if 
you cut them from folded paper. But if you have 
time ahead to prepare your fun, use colored card- 
boards for the egg-cards. The paper is apt to tear 
more easily. Fancy wall paper may be used for 
Easter egg cards and decorations, too. 

Hide these paper eggs everywhere about the rooms 
in the house where you are allowed to play. When 
your friends have come, start the hunt and see who 
can find the most eggs. Then add up the numbers 
on the back of each and see who has the largest sum. 
Each winner should receive an Easter prize — a pretty 
card or a dyed egg. 

You may also play Hide the Egg as one plays 
Hide the Thimble. One player is given an egg to 
hide and all others must leave the room. The egg 
is then hidden by the first player and must be hid- 
den in such a way as to be in sight somewhere in 
the room. When this is arranged, call in the others 
and let them hunt. "Hot" means you are near the 

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object. ^'Cold'' means you are far from it. By ask- 
ing, ''Am I hot?" or "Am I cold?" the players find 
the egg. See who can find it first. The one who finds 
it is the one to hide it next time. 

There are some little favors for Easter-time that 
you will enjoy making yourself. Have you ever made 
surprise cards? Easter egg surprise cards are some- 
thing you can make from white pad paper and col- 
ored pin-wheel papers. You will need scissors and 
some paste. 

First draw the shape of an egg on your pad paper. 
Make the egg about five inches long. Cut a number 
of eggs from paper using the first as a pattern guide. 

Next, from some yellow pin-wheel paper, cut out a 
chick and make others like it. 

After this, run your paste-brush around the edge 
of a white paper egg. Place a yellow paper chick 
upon it and paste another paper egg-shape on top 
so that only the edges of both eggs have paste upon 
them. After the paste is dry, crayon or color a fancy 
rim around both sides of the paper egg-shape and 
write upon one side: 

Open this egg and you will see 
What Easter brings to you, maybe! 

Flufify cotton chicks that are very cunning may be 
made with absorbent cotton and cardboard. Cut out 
paper chicks and paste over their bodies some white 
cotton. Cut it off to the proper shape all the way 

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around and your chick will be a fluffy cotton one. 
You may like to put one like this in your Easter sur- 
prise. If you glue a little easel-back to the chick you 
can make it stand upright. If you have a small black 
bead, glue or sew it in place for an eye. 

Cooked eggs may be made into bunnies. Did you 
ever try to make an Easter bunny this way? When 
your egg is cooked hard, take some cardboard and 
cut from it two long bunny ears, four bunny legs and 
paste these in place on the egg-shell to make a bunny. 
A bit of white cotton will make a tail. Crayons will 
do to outline pink eyes and nose. If you use the best 
of paste and let the egg bunny dry thoroughly before 
you attempt to play with him, he will stand by him- 
self. 

Of course, you know how to ^^blow" an egg that 
is not cooked. If you make a hole in either end 
of the egg-shell very carefully and blow downward 
through the upper hole, the egg itself will go out of 
the hole and leave you the pretty white shell to 
use for making Easter-eggs. 

Run a ribbon through each hole, after you have 
washed and dried the egg-shell. Make a little loop 
of ribbon at the top hole and a bow at the lower one. 
Paste a picture or an Easter sticker of a chick or 
rabbit on either side of the shell, and there you will 
have finished a pretty Easter eggl 

Even though you have no money to spend for sugar 
eggs or candy-box bunnies, you may have just as good 
a time as anybody with Easter fun that costs nothing. 

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If you could choose the kind of toys 

You'd have on Easter Day, 
Which would you take — an Easter egg 

Or bunny made for play? 

I think I'd choose a yellow chick, 

And eggs and bunnies too, 
And then I'd wish for more of them, 

Now, really, wouldn't you§ 



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OUTDOOR MAY DAY FUN 

Material Required for Outdoor May Day Fun- 
Making: A shallow dish, some woodland moss and 
wild woodland plants, pebbles, toy figures and a bas- 
ket with which to go a-Maying. 

Springtime and Maytime! Isn't it fun? You be- 
gin to watch for the first signs of it about Valen- 
tine's Day, but it doesn't really and truly seem spring 
till you can see the big fresh outdoors in the woods 
— and the time to see this and celebrate it is in 
May. 

On the first day of May, in olden times, it was 
the custom to go to the woods. Nowadays, we have 
May Day parties in the park. We choose a May 
Queen and, perhaps, a May King, too. We have the 
old, old May-pole dance and we play games. But 
some few of us who live near the woods just make 
a May Day celebration of real brooks and wild- 
flowers. That's the best May Day fun there is! 

If you like, you may choose a May Day Queen 
to go with your party. I think you will want to 
choose the nicest little girl you know. You will not 
dress up to go on this May Day fun party. You will 
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it would be wise to carry a good pair of rubbers. 
Everybody must have a basket. This each child may 
bring w^ith him, or you may make the baskets out of 
cardboard shoe boxes. To make a basket, remove 
the cover of the box. Cut a strip of cardboard an 
inch and a half wide and about eighteen or twenty 
inches long. Fasten one end of this cardboard strip 
with a round brass paper-fastener to one long side 
of your box. Put it exactly in the center of the box- 
rim. Fasten the other end in the same way, oppo- 
site. This makes a basket with a handle. If you 
place in this basket's bottom some waxed paper such 
as sandwiches are wrapped in, it will keep the mois- 
ture from spoiling your basket when damp plants 
are placed in it. The box should have a lining even 
if this be but newspaper or thick brown paper. 

Your May Day fun party should carry a trowel 
and perhaps a dull round-bladed knife. You are 
going to the woods to find spring surprises and you 
are going to bring these home and make indoor gar- 
dens to grow for you. You are going to see who 
can make the loveliest. This, you see, is a May Day 
game — your game. 

Into your baskets go all the pretty stones you may 
find at the brookside. The mossy small pebbles are 
just the very thing! You will find wee violet plants 
that may be dug up by the roots. Use the round- 
bladed knife and lift the wee plants carefully into 
your basket. Three or four are quite enough. Don't 

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injure the woods for a later party by spoiling the 
flowers! 

Be careful to pick only the plants you know well. 
Remember that some wild things are poisonous. 
There will be plenty of green growing things that 
are not — violets, Jack-in-the-pulpits, ferns and other 
wildflowers. And be sure to bring lumps of green 
moss. You will need this later on when the May 
fun party reaches home. 

When you come home, find some newspapers and 
some old flower-pots — wee ones and flat drainers. 
If you do not have these, each child should have an 
earthen baking dish or shallow dish of some sort. 
With moss, pebbles, plants, see who can make the 
prettiest bit of woodland. Each child must put his 
moss, pebbles, and plants on a newspaper. The work 
does not take long. First plan what you want to 
do. Place the plants in the dish. Arrange them 
firmly with earth around them. Place moss over 
this to cover it entirely and then put the mossy stones 
where you think they would be pretty. You may 
make a dish landscape that suggests a grotto by a 
brook. Very tiny pebbles that are laid across the dish 
will make a brook's bed — a dry brook, it is true, but 
still "a brook!" 

If you and your friends have little toy fairies or 
birds or frogs, place these in amongst the Jack-in-the- 
Pulpits and fern and moss. The pretty bits of wood- 
land in your dishes should be displayed in the form 

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of an exhibition and you can give a small prize to 
the one who has made the most beautiful one. Have 
those who come to view the exhibition cast votes on 
folded slips of paper. Place these in an open basket 
or box. The prize should go to the prettiest wood- 
land nook that has been voted best. The prize may 
be a package of flower seeds. 

If you have Jack-in-the-Pulpit plants left from 
the contest, place these with moss to stand upright 
in some dish. Fit moss over their bulbs. They will 
be wonderfully interesting to watch. If you have 
carefully gathered them without breaking stems or 
bulbs, the Jacks will grow and develop day by day 
for you just as they grow in the woody places. Even 
tiny green sprouts of Jacks, tall and pointed without 
sign of green leaf yet — these may be carried home 
with their bulbs and day by day you can watch the 
progress of unfolding leaves and blossom. This will 
be a real Maytime happiness! If you like, you may 
pot these wee Jack-in-the-Pulpit sprouts and place 
each in a small-sized flower-pot. It will make a 
lovely May-day gift to give a friend. Crepe paper 
may be tied around the earthen pot with a strand 
of ribbon or colored raflia. 

Upon the First of May, one time, 

I had a splendid play: 
We carried baskets to a wood 

And had a Queen of May — 
And each of us, with mossy stones, 

And pretty things all green 

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Trophies Brought Home from a Real May Day Party in the Woods. 



OUTDOOR MAY DAY FUN 

Made in a dish a fairy dell — 

The dearest ever seen! 
I put a Kewpie doll in mine — 

Maybe you have one too 
And you can make a fairyland — 

It would be fun to do. 



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Materials Required to Make May Day Fun : Tis- 
sue papers of assorted colors or Dennison crepe pa- 
pers that have flower patterns, wire, string or rib- 
bon, some cardboard and flowers cut from wallpaper 
patterns, paper dolls, artificial flowers, some small 
cardboard boxes to make into baskets, some very 
small picnic plates to make into May baskets, some 
paper clips with which to fasten handles upon bas- 
kets, twigs from trees. 

Tools Needed to Make May Day Fun: Scissors, 
paste. 

It seems strange that May Day is usually a day 
that is rainy. Or, if it is not rainy, it never is as 
warm as it should be for outdoor fun. The real 
place for a May Day fun time seems to be right 
in the house if you are thinking of making a little 
party in honor of the day. You can still have a May 
Queen and a May-pole and May flowers! 

In order to prepare for an indoor May party, you 
w^ill need to find some colored tissue papers. Bet- 
ter than the colored tissue papers are the Dennison 
crepe papers that have flowers printed on them. These 
you can cut right out of the paper and make into 

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garlands and spring-like blooming twigs. If you 
have some flowered wallpaper, this, too, you may use. 
Cut the flowers out in clusters. 

You will need to have flowers scattered all over 
the rooms where you intend to play. These you must 
cut out before the party day. An easy way to cut 
blossoms from plain tissue papers is to begin by 
making a number of small circles outlined upon pink, 
yellow, white and red tissue paper. You may make 
several folds of tissue and cut about ten blossoms at 
a time after you have made a pattern to use in 
cutting. This is a white paper circle. Fold the 
circle in half and cut three scollops with your scis- 
sors. Each should be deep to make the round petal 
of a flower. Then unfold the circle and you will have 
cut a blossom. Use this pattern, if it is good — if not, 
try again till you make a good pattern. Then make 
a number of folds of tissue paper, first one color and 
then another. Cut a large supply of blossoms. You 
will need to use at least six sheets of colored tissue 
papers. When these blossoms are ''crinkled" a bit 
at each center, they may be strung upon a ribbon 
that has been threaded on a darning-needle. A knot 
should be tied in the ribbon between each blossom 
and thus you make a garland of tissue paper flowers. 
Each child should have a darning-needle threaded 
with pink, white, green or tan-color baby ribbon. Of 
course, everybody must have a garland to wear! 

Every one must make May Day twig blossoms, too. 
These are done by pressing the paper blossoms on 

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dead twigs, much as if the twig were like the ribbon 
you threaded. When the blossom reaches the place 
where you think it should be placed, '^crinkle" it 
with your fingers at its center and paste it in place 
tight. By putting these blossoms on the dead twigs, 
you may make a pretty May Day wand for the May 
Queen. 

Your party should open with a choice of May 
Queen. Have some slips of paper and pencils and 
let everybody vote. You may chose a May King in 
the same way, if you like. After this, give each child 
a basket to use in gathering blossoms that have been 
scattered all about the rooms in odd nooks — every- 
where. 

It is easy to make pretty fancy May baskets by 
taking wee picnic plates and fastening small handles 
to them. The plates are about three inches square. 
You can buy a dozen of them — or more — for five 
cents. Make a pretty colored tissue-paper mat to 
put in the bottom of each little dish, fringe the edge 
with some scissor-snippings or scollops. Then cut 
from colored cardboard some half-inch strips about 
seven inches long. Fasten the end of a strip inside 
upon a little fancy paper picnic plate. Use a paper 
fastener for this work. Then fasten the other end 
to the opposite side of the picnic plate and you have 
made a cunning little May basket. Each one to enter 
the fun of gathering blossoms must have a basket. 

When all have done this, give out the ribboned 
needles and let each make his own garland. From 

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these, the Queen and King may choose later the ones 
they are to wear. They may choose their scepters 
or flower wands the same way, if you like. 

Then, of course, there comes the crowning of the 
King and Queen of May. You should have a throne 
arranged with shawls or chairs and cushions and 
crown the chosen royalty with the garlands. After 
this, you may like to play a flower game made with 
wallpaper flowers pasted upon cardboard cards. If 
you have no wallpaper from which to cut flowers, 
you may write the names of flowers upon plain white 
cards cut to the uniform size of three by four inches. 

This is the way to make a Flower Game: take 
cardboard and rule it off evenly into cards each about 
four inches high and about three inches wide. Make 
twenty-four cards. Write the names of six spring 
flowers upon the cards: first, four cards of one name 
and then four cards of another name, and so on. 
There should be four similar cards in each series. 

If you have flowered wallpapers, you may illus- 
trate the cards by pasting on each of four cards a 
similar flower. Be very careful to make four alike 
— exactly alike. Use six varieties of flowers for the 
game. Mount each cut-out flower design very care- 
fully and neatly on each card. 

The Flower Game is played by four or more play- 
ers. No more than six may play it and not less than 
four. When cards are dry, they may be placed in 
a pack to await the time when you wish to use them 
for your May Day fun. Then, when you play the 

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game, begin by seating the players around a table. 
Shuffle the pack of flower cards thoroughly and deal 
a card at a time, face down to those seated around 
the table. When all are distributed, tell the players 
that each must obtain a handful of four similar flow- 
ers. (If you have illustrated the cards with wall- 
paper flowers, it may be well to show players before 
the game starts just what flowers are in the pack and 
name them so there need be no mistake. If you have 
written names only upon the cards : violet, bloodroot, 
windflower, Mayflow^er, Jack-in-the-Pulpit and like 
names, you will not need to do this.) 

Play is made in turn. Each player may ask any 
other for the kind of flower he wants to collect. 
If that player has the flower, he must give it up. 
Then the player is entitled to another turn till he 
fails to obtain what he asks for. The first to make 
a bouquet or handful of four similar flowers wins 
the game. 

There is still another May Day card game you can 
play. It is played with the same cards and is called 
May-flower. 

Deal out the cards, one at a time to each player. 
When all are dealt, the players may take up their 
cards. Each must put a flower in the center of the 
table as his turn comes. If any player can put down 
a May-flower, this takes all the cards that are in the 
center of the table. The one to take all the cards 
wins. 

A pretty prize for the winner of a game is a wee 

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May-pole. You may make it yourself. You will 
need some green crepe paper of two shades, some 
narrow baby ribbon, and some artificial flowers. 

First, cover a smooth stick about ten or twelve 
inches tall with green crepe paper. This is done by 
cutting a narrow strip and pasting an end at the 
end of the stick to cover the point. Then twist the 
strip carefully and smoothly around the stick to cover 
it. Fasten it again at its base and cut off any end 
of crepe paper that there may be. 

Next, while the pole is drying, make a pretty green 
circle to put the pole upon. This is made by cut- 
ting a big circle of white or green cardboard. The 
circle should be at least eight inches in diameter. 
On this circle, you must paste grass cut from dark 
green crepe paper. It sounds strange to say that 
you can make grass but if you look at the picture 
you will see how this grass looks. It is easily made 
by cutting one inch strips of the paper and snipping 
this doubled. Then paste these strips around and 
around the flat circle letting each plain under part 
be pasted over the first plain part till your circle is 
covered. Begin at the outer rim of the circle and 
work inward. When all is dry, ruff up the snipped 
paper to look like grass. 

Make a circle of narrow cardboard about ten 
inches in diameter and cover it with twisted tissue 
paper to form the ring of the May-pole's top. Tie 
this with ribbons that fasten tight to it and fasten 
again at the top of the wooden paper-covered pole's 

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top. Then tie a knot of little artificial flowers with 
a bow of ribbon to cover any ribbon ends or pasted 
paper that is there. The ends of the ribbons — there 
should be about four — hang down to make the May- 
pole streamers. Paper dolls fastened at the back with 
wire standards may hold the streamers of the May- 
pole. 

If you like, you may have the May-pole upon a 
table and serve lemonade and crackers from the table. 
In this case have a paper doll for each child and 
have all numbered. Give one to each little guest. 
The numbers tally with little favor gifts of artificial 
flower nosegays that are passed around in a basket 
with the crackers. Each must find his own by num- 
ber. Then, of course, everybody pins his nosegay 
on with a pin. 

After the refreshments, the Queen and the King 
choose games to play — and then the May Day party 
says good-bye and runs home, each with his or her 
little May Day basket and nosegay. I think every- 
body will have had a good time, don't you, when 
good-bye is said at your May party? 

We had a party at my house, 

Upon the First of May: 
We chose a May Queen and a King 

Just for a May-time play. 
We hunted paper flowers 

And we strung some garlands, too, 
Though all were made of paper, 

It was great fun to do. 

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. June Fun is All About Birds, of Course. 



JUNE FUN 

Materials Required to Make June Fun: Pic- 
tures of birds, cut from Dennison crepe paper or 
from printed bird pictures; cardboard to cut for 
a game made of cards, bird stickers that come as 
gummed seals. 

Tools Needed to Make June Fun: Pencil, scis- 
sors, ruler. 

Bird Fun is splendid play for June weather. You 
may plan for it in advance, for you will need to find 
at least ten or twelve large pictures of different vari- 
eties of birds. With these you are to make a row 
of hanging illustrations. None of them must have 
upon them the name of the variety of bird it repre- 
sents. Your friends, when they come to share your 
fun, must guess. See who can identify each bird 
in each picture! 

To help the fun, you will need to prepare tally 
cards: cut big cards from pasteboard. Each card 
should be about six inches by four inches. If you 
can buy some boxes of colored bird seals, ornament 
each card with one sticker at the top. Make a hole 
at the side of the tally. Tie a pencil to a strand 
of colored raffia and loop the raffia through the hole. 

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Each one who plays the game must have one of these 
tally cards. Each must look at the bird pictures care- 
fully and, without talking with another player or 
exchanging notes, must write opposite the number 
one on his card what number one bird in number one 
picture is. This may or may not be guessed right 
but you must have everybody write an answer. Then 
number tivo is looked at and guessed the same way. 
This continues till all the set has been guessed. 

Now, gather together all the cards after the chil- 
dren have written their names on the backs. Give 
them out again so that nobody has to correct his own 
list of guesses. Then read aloud the right list be- 
ginning with number one and continuing in proper 
order. The wrong guesses on each card are crossed 
off each time by those who are correcting cards. At 
the close, the card that has the most correct list 
wins and the child whose name is on its back may 
receive as a prize a pretty picture of a bird that you 
have yourself mounted upon a pretty paper mat. 

After this, you may have a bird hunt. Cut from 
some Dennison bird pattern paper all the birds il- 
lustrated: bluebird, robin, woodpecker, sparrow, and 
so on. The Dennison papers may be secured in any 
town. If you cannot get them, you may cut outlines 
of birds from colored papers and write a bird's name 
upon the back of each bird you make. 

Hide the birds around the room. There should 
be about twenty birds hidden here and there. Place 
them in easy places, not too difficult to get at or too 

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hard to find. Then let the little friends hunt for 
them. See who can find the most birds. At the 
close of the round of the game, each child must 
tell what his birds are. (If paper patterns of birds 
are used and names written on the back, the child 
who holds the birds must tell what the distinguish- 
ing feature of each variety he holds is — bluebird is 
all blue, robin has a red breast, sparrow is small 
and quarrelsome and has a speckled breast of brown 
and white.) If the player to whom a bird belongs 
cannot properly describe the species, he cannot keep 
the bird. 

The birds that cannot be kept are taken by one of 
the players who has the largest number himself and 
hidden about the room again. Then players are 
called in to try again. This continues till all birds 
have been properly found and identified. The one 
who has most successfully identified and found birds 
wins the game. 

After this game, you may play another: take pen- 
cils and papers and see who can write the longest 
list of birds. Who knows the most birds? 

There is still another game you may make and 
play. It is called Bluebird. It is made by cutting 
cards from bristol-board. Each card may be ruled 
from a series mapped out with ruler and pencil on 
a big sheet of thin cardboard. Make the cards about 
two inches wide by three inches high. Write upon 
two, robin; upon two more, woodpecker; upon two 
more, thrush; upon two more, oriole; upon two more, 

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catbird; upon two more, sparrow; upon two more, 
blackbird; upon two more, goldfinch; upon two 
more, lark; upon two more, thrush; upon two more, 
warbler; upon two more, blue jay, and then write 
on one card bluebird. This makes a set of twenty- 
five cards. You may add other pairs of birds to it 
if you like and there are to be a number of players. 

Any number of players may play if you add cards 
enough. For twenty-five cards, as many as six may 
use one pack. Place all the cards together and shuf- 
fle them well. Then deal out one at a time all the way 
around your table, face down. Nobody may see 
what the cards are till the dealer is through. Then, 
without letting other players see what cards are that 
each player discards, each must proceed to mate pairs 
of like birds. Two robins or two woodpeckers and 
so on. Wherever two of a kind happen in the hand 
of any player, the cards are put together and placed 
face down on the table beside that player. 

After this, each player in turn exchanges cards 
with the player at his left. In doing this, hold your 
cards so that nobody but yourself can see them. When 
all cards of birds are mated, the player to hold the 
bluebird wins. 

If you live in the city you may illustrate your game 
with pictures of birds. At the stationery shop you 
will find that they sell gummed stickers of bird pic- 
tures in wee boxes. Each box costs ten cents and 
the sticker pictures are used for sealing letters or 
packages. They come in assortments of varied bird 

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pictures and the seals may be pasted on the card- 
board cards to make your bird game. It will be fun 
to play with it at other times than just in June, I 
think, don't you? You may make a set of these cards 
for a prize to give at your June Fun party, if you 
like. 

June's the time of bird song, 
June's a time of glee, 
June's the time for parties. 
Fun for you and me. 

Little birds are singing, 
Everything is gay. 
We, too, will be making 
Jollity to-day. 



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FUN FOR JULY FOURTH 

Material Required to Make July Fourth Fun: 
Red tissue paper, white string, thin cardboard, pa- 
triotic flag stickers in five-cent envelopes, some pa- 
triotic crepe paper napkins with flags printed on 
them, some sticks of candy. 

Tools Needed to Make July Fourth Fun: Scis- 
sors, pencil, paste, ruler. 

July Fourth, I suppose, means to you fire-crackers 
and noise, parades and patriotic speech-making. But 
there are more ways than these to enjoy its spirit of 
celebration. It may be that you live away from places 
where fire-crackers go off bang! In this case, you and 
your friends may have fun with some patriotic games. 
These are all quiet games that you may play at a fun 
party. They are quite as much fun as noisy ones 
and, I think, better fun than most noisy ones! 

Your fun may include fire-crackers too. But these 
fire-crackers are not made with powder and do not 
go off bang. They are prizes for your games. You 
will need to make the fire-crackers before the day of 
the celebration — unless, just for fun — you think 
others might like to help make fire-crackers and 
learn how. 

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In the picture of July Fourth's fun, you will see the 
fire-crackers. They look real, certainly! They are 
so real that you'd believe them truly-ruly fire-crack- 
ers, but there is inside of each candy! 

You will need to have some sticks of candy and be- 
side these some thin cardboard that will roll easily. 
(Maybe, if your mother thinks you can't have candy, 
you can make the crackers without. I made some 
without.) First, divide your candy sticks into three 
parts, if you have them. Roll each part in some 
waxed paper. Cut some pieces of thin cardboard two 
by four inches in size. Put one bit of candy roll upon 
the cardboard and then roll this to form a tight tube. 
After this, roll the tube in red tissue paper that 
comes a penny a sheet. Tie at one end with a white 
string and then poke both twisted ends back into the 
tube — and the fire-cracker is all made! It takes no 
time at all! One sheet of red tissue paper is enough 
to make a number of crackers — all sizes. You may 
make very wee ones as well as large ones but keep the 
sizes uniform: little ones all alike, big ones all alike. 
This is done by cutting the cardboard in similar size 
always. 

If you have some crepe paper napkins that have 
flags at either corner, you may make real little flags 
for decoration by cutting these from the napkins and 
pasting each upon a strip of heavy cardboard or a 
stick. The shield of the United States may be cut in 
the same way. 

With the flags, you may play a game. Cut a pic- 

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ture of Uncle Sam from some magazine. Mount it 
with paste upon a large sheet of cardboard. Gather 
the children who want to play the game with you 
and have a big handkerchief to blindfold each in turn. 
Put the picture of Uncle Sam at one end of the room 
and see who, blindfolded, can place his flag closest to 
him. That one should receive a fire-cracker reward. 
You may play the game as long as you like in as many 
rounds as you think fun. Each time, there should be 
a reward for the successful winner. 

In the same way, you may make a similar game to 
play with a five-cent flag. If you have no flag, you 
may cut a large oblong of white paper and make one 
by pasting strips of red tissue or red paper to form 
stripes upon it. From some paper, cut out a star 
for everybody who wants to play and see who can 
put his star upon the ground of the flag where Uncle 
Sam's stars should go. 

Another game is a test for your knowledge of Unit- 
ed States history. You may make it with a package 
of five-cent flag stickers and a half a sheet of white 
cardboard. Find a pencil, ruler, scissors — and your 
book of United States history. 

Rule off upon the cardboard fifty-three cards. Each 
card must be about an inch and a half or two inches 
wide and about three inches high. Make every card 
the same size. 

Divide the pack — twenty-six cards in one pile and 
twenty-seven in another pile. Take the twenty-seven 
cards and divide this pack, excepting one card. On 

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thirteen cards, paste flag stickers. On the extra card 
write the date of the Declaration of Independence 
and under it paste a flag. 

The other pack of plain cards, thirteen in number, 
should each have an important date of history writ- 
ten on them. Begin with early Colonial history and 
carry your dates up to the present time. 

These twenty-seven cards may then be put in with 
the plain cards of the first divided pack. Mix all up 
well. 

Seat players around a table — as many as six may 
play. As few as three may play. Deal out five cards 
from the big pack to each player. Deal with backs 
down so that nobody may see them. Only players 
playing may see their own hands. There may be no 
questioning between players as to what numbers of 
dates stand for. Reference may be made to the his- 
tory book but only between deals or rounds of play. 

To begin, the first player must lead out a date. If 
he has none, he plays a blank card. If he has no 
blank card, he plays a flag. But the player who fol- 
lows a date card must try to take it with a flag and 
tell, in so doing, what that date stands for in United 
States history. When new hands are needed, the play- 
er at the dealer's left deals out new cards to each play- 
er again. These are all taken from the complete pack 
first made. The first player to gain a score of thirteen 
that stands for the original States wins the game. 
Shuflle all cards after each round, taking every play- 

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er's gains back into the pack with all plain cards that 
have been put on the table. 

Another nice thing to do at a Fourth of July fun 
party is to find some big railroad map of the United 
States and mount this upon a big piece of cloth or 
cardboard. With it, you may play a United States 
game. Give every player a pin with a piece of round 
paper a quarter of an inch large. Write every play- 
er's name on the back of his paper. Run the pin 
through. Then count out to see who shall begin the 
game. 

Blindfold each player in turn and as you start each 
toward the map, blindfolded with arm outstretched 
and pin on paper, tell the player to try to reach Wash- 
ington and put his circle on the District of Columbia. 
It will be very funny to see where some players locate 
this, but the play is continued till some one of the 
party is successful. Then give out the little Fourth 
of July favor or prize you have prepared. 

If you have lemonade and cake afterwards, put 
flags on the tray or table where you serve the refresh- 
ments. If you can arrange to give everybody a piece 
of cake with a crepe paper flag upon it, it will make 
an appropriate little remembrance of the fun party 
to carry home. And I'm sure if you show the chil- 
dren how to make the fire-crackers — even without 
candy in the cardboard roll — they'll think that is 
jolly to know. Inside each you might roll a little 
patriotic verse, maybe. 

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Patriotic Games are Fun for the Fourth of July. 




Butterfly Fun Comes in August. 



FUN FOR JULY FOURTH 

I like to look up In the sky 

And see there in the breeze 
The Stars and Stripes a-floating high 

Above our tallest trees: 
It is so very beautiful 

I'm glad that I can say, 
Fm glad I am American 

Hooray! Hooray! Hooray! 



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AUGUST FUN 

Material Required to Make August Fun: Just 

some colored tissue papers. 

Tools Needed to Make August Fun : Pencil, scis- 
sors, pins. 

August is such a warm month that it is fun to play- 
outdoors when the weather is fine and the lawn shady. 
But I'll tell you of a game you can play either in- 
doors or out. First, you will need to hunt for your 
box of colored papers and cut out some butterflies. 
That sounds harder than it really is! A good way to 
begin is to cut a butterfly pattern in white pad paper. 

Take a square of white paper from five to six inches 
in size. Fold it in two. Then with pencil, outline the 
wings of a butterfly — just one side of the butterfly 
with the body coming at the fold of the paper. Next, 
cut around your marks with scissors that go through 
both folds of paper at once and you will find, that 
the butterfly is all made. Perhaps you may like to put 
colored crayon markings on his wings. Make a num- 
ber of these butterflies, and when your friends come, 
pin one to the back of each friend. On each of the 
butterflies that are pinned onto the dresses or coats of 
your guests, write the name of a different flower. Each 

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must guess what flower is upon his own butterfly. No- 
body may tell him. He may ask questions but only 
such questions as may be answered by ''Yes" or ''No." 
When all have properly guessed, you may start an- 
other butterfly game. This may be Find the Butter- 
fly. 

Select one of the butterflies and count out for one of 
the group who shall be first to hide it. No butterfl^^ 
may be hidden under any object or placed higher than 
the height of the one who hides it. It is not fair, of 
course, to peek : that's mean ! All who are to hunt for 
the butterfly go off and count in unison up to one hun- 
dred. Then they call, "Ready!" 

The first to find the butterfly is allowed to hide it 
next time. Everybody ought to have at least one turn 
to try this. The one to find it most frequently may 
have the chance to begin the next game. 

This may be a blindfold game played with a large 
flower and butterflies. Each player should have a big 
paper butterfly with his name written upon it. The 
flower chosen is placed flat on a table at a distance. 
See who can put the butterfly on the flower. The 
handkerchief should be tied on for a blindfold and 
the player's vision should be tested. Then with out- 
stretched arm, the player who has been turned around 
three times and started toward the flower, must put 
his pin and butterfly on the first thing his hand 
touches. The flower is the prize of the butterfly's 
owner who comes closest to it. 

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I wonder — don't you like to snip with scissors? I do too! 

And I've made up the nicest play — I'll tell you what to do: 

You can make splendid butterflies, as easy as can be — 

And afterwards, you make them fly! Oh, just you wait and see! 

First, find some tissue paper — some yellow and some white ; 

Cut out four inches in a square (I think that is just right) 

Then fold the square and cut — snip-snip one scollop and one more, 

Then you will need a tiny twig. I'll tell you what that's for: 

The tissue paper makes the wings of your big butterfly, 

His body is the tiny stick. Glue it and let it dr/. 

It goes between the pretty wings, and when all this is done. 

You and your pretty butterfly can have some lovely fun : 

Tie some black thread about the stick. Hold one end in your hand, 

The butterfly will follow you as if at your command : 

You run — the butterfly behind floats after through the air, 

Wherever you go it goes too. It follows everj-where! 

And you can make it light upon the flowers, bushes, trees — 

I think I never knew before tame butterflies like these ! 



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SEPTEMBER FUN: A LEAF PARTY GAME 

Materials Required to Make a Leaf Party Game : 

Bright colored papers in sheets of green, yellow, 
brown, red. White paper may be used in place of 
colored papers and colored with some crayons. Each 
player must have a fan made of paper or newspaper. 

Tools Needed to Make a Leaf Game: Pencil, 
scissors. 

In September the frost begins to turn the trees' 
leaves to beautiful shades of red, yellow, brown and 
bronze. Probably you have many times picked the 
leaves up and admired them. Did you ever want to 
keep them? Did you ever take a beautiful spray of 
leaves and iron it? If your mother will let you have 
a small bit of paraffine and a warm iron, you may 
put a bit of the wax on each leaf and iron it over the 
leaf so that the leaf will stay bright and last for a 
long time. If every leaf of a spray is so treated, the 
whole may be kept all winter lasting and lovely. Be 
sure to use only a warm iron and only a little wax 
that goes all over the leaf. Iron upon newspaper and 
iron both sides of the leaf. This will make a pretty 
prize for a leaf game, if you want to have fun-making 
and playing with a group of friends some day indoors. 

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I think almost any one of them would like to possess 
a spray of autumn leaves that will last so long. Placed 
over a picture frame or in some vase, they will be 
beautiful to keep and enjoy when snow is on the 
ground. 

If you want to have a Leaf Party some afternoon, 
send your invitations out written upon leaves — that's 
fun, doesn't it sound so? The leaves that you write 
upon will not be real leaves: they are white paper 
leaves that you will need to cut from real leaves that 
you pick up outdoors. Find some maple leaves or 
any others. Take a leaf and place it flat on a sheet 
of white paper. With a pencil, draw all around its 
rim. Then cut out the outline of the leaf you have 
drawn. You may write upon this your invitation, 

Dear Wopsie: 

Please bring a fan with you and come 
over some afternoon when your mother 
will let you. I want to play a leaf game 
with you. Some other children are com- 
ing too, I hope, and we'll have some fun. 
Your friend, 

TOPSY. 

The invitation should go in an envelope to all lit- 
tle friends whom you want to invite. You can easily 
arrange for a time that will be convenient for all. 

When they come, show them how you cut the invi- 
tation leaf pattern and let them try cutting leaves 
from colored papers. Each should have paper of dif- 

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ferent color but each should have a differently shaped 
leaf to use as a pattern. When each has cut out six 
leaves, then the game is almost ready to begin. You 
will need to mark off a goal, for the game is to be a 
race. It should be played in two or three rooms. 
The start should be in one room and go through the 
doorway into another. At the end of this second 
room place a strip of white cloth so that it will make 
a goal across one corner. Leaves must be fanned from 
the starting-place in the first room through the second 
and across the goal line. Only one leaf may be start- 
ed at a time. No hands may ever be touched to 
any leaf except when it is placed on the floor to start 
toward the goal. 

To start the race, see that every player has his fan 
in his right hand. If you like, these fans may be 
made from newspaper tied into fan-shape. The fan 
should be short and must never be used to brush a 
leaf — one must fan. All players stand in a row with 
their first leaf on the floor before them. Upon each 
leaf's back is written the name of the child to whom 
it belongs. 

Give a signal : Start! Then let every player fan 
his leaf as carefully and as quickly as he can to pro- 
gress toward the given goal. Remember: no hands 
upon any leaf and no brushing of any leaf with a fan. 
If these two rules are broken a player must begin all 
over at the start again and lose all gain. 

As soon as any player's leaf is over the goal line, he 
may come back to the starting-place and start another. 

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This play continues till one of the contestants has 
placed six leaves successfully over the line. Then 
the others may finish, if they like to see who will win 
next, but the prize you have made of the lovely au- 
tumn spray will belong to the winner who first puts 
six leaves over the goal line. 

Small prizes for the other children may be sepa- 
rate autumn leaves upon which you have pasted some 
picture. When these leaves are waxed over, they 
make useful and pretty bookmarkers for school books. 

You may also arrange a Tree Game. There should 
be some small favors, one for each guest. You may 
take some lollypop candy sticks and fasten a gay pa- 
per leaf on each side of the candy's paper. Tie the 
stems of both leaves to the lollypop stick with ribbon 
or raffia. Do the candies up in packages and put a 
number on each one. Other little favors may be used 
with the lollypops. You can plan one for every child 
who is to be asked to your fun party. 

These are to be used in playing your Tree Game. 
You will need to make the Tree Game by drawing a 
tree on a big sheet of cardboard. Use your crayons 
and make the trunk brown. Put plenty of green 
leaves upon your tree. 

When the picture of the tree is made, cut some 
green leaves from paper — as many as there are chil- 
dren invited to your party. Each leaf must have on 
it a number. These numbers correspond to the num- 
bers marked on the little gifts. Hang the tree picture 

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at one end of the room and when your friends have 
had their fan race, you may play the Tree Game. 

Blindfold each small guest in turn and start him 
forward in the general direction of the tree, from 
which he must pick the first leaf that his hand touches. 
The usual calls of ^^hot" or ^'cold" will serve to guide 
him to the tree and to pick a leaf. When everybody 
has secured a leaf, then the little presents are passed 
around and each matches the number on his leaf with 
the number of the package. Don't you think that that 
is fun? 

If you like, you may then play another form of 
Leaf Race: one at a time in turn see how you may 
fan one leaf to a given corner of the room in as few 
strokes of the fan as possible. Count is kept of every 
stroke of the fan and the child whose count is least, 
after all have tried, wins the game. 

You might have a Leaf Hunt, too. Play it as you 
would Find the Thimble, only number ten leaves: 
I, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8, 9, lo. Count out to see who shall 
hide them. Send everybody else from the room. 
When all leaves are hidden call the children back 
and let them hunt. As soon as the leaves are all found, 
count up the scores and the one who has the largest 
score is winner and can hide the leaves for the others 
for a second game. All may ask, ^^Am I hot?" or 
"Am I cold?" but no further directions maybe given. 

By the end of this game, I think, it will be time for 
the children to say good-bye, but if they stay longer 

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you can find and choose games that you have played 
before. 

I think the elves take autumn leaves 

To make their party things — 
The scarlet and the yellovi^ cloak 

They slip on over wings. 

I've seen the leaves a-dancing 

And wheeling here and there 
And under each one is an elf 

A-hiding in it there. 

I never saw a little elf 

Dressed in a leaf that way 
But when the leaves are dancing so, 

It must be elves at play ! 



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October Fun is for Hallowe'en and a Funny Witch has Made Alagic Ink 

for It. 



OCTOBER HALLOWE'EN FUN 

Material Required to Make October Hallowe'en 
Fun: A sheet of cardboard to make a Witch's Cat 
Game, some black paper from which to cut cats, 
some orange-colored crepe paper and cotton with 
which to construct pumpkin favors, some lemon juice 
to make magic ink, some small kitchen kettle for a 
cauldron and three stout tree twigs for its supports, 
some white pad paper to use in making ^^fortunes." 

Tools Needed to Make October Hallowe'en Fun: 

Some crayons, scissors, pins, a clean steel pen with 
pen-holder, paste. 

Hallowe'en is always fun. I dare say you will want 
to plan for a party yourself. Maybe you will like to 
play the old, old games, but maybe, too, you will like 
to make some new ones, so I'll tell you about some. 

First, you will like to make your invitations. If 
you can get as many correspondence cards and en- 
velopes as you have guests to invite, each card may 
be decorated with a black cat cut from black paper. 
To make these, first draw the outline of a cat on white 
paper and then use this as a pattern to guide in the 
cutting of cats from black paper. If you have some 
pieces of black velvet, this may be used in place of 

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the black paper. The invitation cards should each 
have a wee black cat pasted upon them. 

When the invitations have gone, you will then need 
to start other preparations that will make plenty 
to do to keep you busy in spare time. First, there are 
the pumpkin favors to make. They are not hard to 
construct but they take time: cut as many circles of 
cardboard as you have guests. Each circle is to be 
the foundation of a pumpkin. A circle that is about 
three inches in diameter — or less — is easy to manage. 
Put one of these upon a circle of crepe paper that is 
three times as large. Gather the edge of this big 
crepe paper circle into bag-shape. Stuff it tight with 
cotton, and when you have made it look like a pump- 
kin, tie a string tight at the top. You will need to 
make a pumpkin stem by twisting the ends of paper 
above this pumpkin with paste. A big green paper 
pumpkin leaf may be pasted on each pumpkin. If 
you like, you may outline pumpkin faces on each 
pumpkin. You will have to do this carefully or else 
your work of pumpkin-making will be lost. Use a 
paint-brush with dark paint and do not use much 
water on the brush. If you use much water, there 
will be a blot and all your work will have to be started 
anew. 

To make a game of Witch's Cat, take a sheet of 
cardboard and paste upon it some picture of a Hal- 
lowe'en witch. The pictures are not hard to find. 
You will always find them in the gay crepe papers 
used for Hallowe'en decoration. If you cannot find 

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this picture, you may easily draw the picture of a 
witch and her broomstick. After you have all 
bobbed for apples in the usual Hallowe'en fashion, 
see who can put the witch's cat upon her broom. Give 
each guest a small cat cut from black paper. Every- 
body should have a pin, too. Blindfold each child 
in turn, and turn him three times. Then start him, 
hand outstretched with pin run through the cat, to- 
ward the picture of the witch hung at the end of the 
room within easy reach. The one who can put his 
cat on the broom wins the game. It will be funny 
to see where the other black tabbies go — anywhere 
but the right place! A pumpkin is, of course, the 
prize. 

You may prepare Witch Fortunes. They are great 
fun for Hallowe'en. First, you will need to squeeze 
a lemon into some clean little jelly jar. Strain the 
juice. This is magic ink! The lemon juice is truly 
wonderful, for I dare say you never before realized 
that it was possible to make writing-ink with it. It 
seems perfectly clear and colorless. 

But take a piece of white paper and a clean steel 
pen. Write a few words with the pen after it is dipped 
into the lemon juice. Let the paper dry. You can 
see nothing upon it afterwards! And now for the 
magic! Just take a warm iron and pass it over the 
paper — lo, out of the white sheet come the words that 
you wrote, all black, as if written in ink! The sheet 
may be held toward the screen of an open fire quite 

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as satisfactorily for bringing out the hidden writing 
as using the hot iron. 

Now for the making of Hallowe'en fortunes: Take 
a pad and write short ''fortunes," one on each leaf. 
When the sheets are dry, roll each one and put it in 
a kitchen kettle, that you may easily make into the 
cauldron by tying three stout twigs together and let- 
ting the cauldron hang below them on a loop of string. 
Witch ink will blot as easily as real ink, so be careful 
about having all sheets dry before being rolled and 
placed in the pot. 

After you have played the usual Hallowe'en games, 
have a black-clad ''witch" (that may be you or some 
other boy or girl) enter the room and beckon the 
guests toward the fireplace. Seat them in a half-cir- 
cle around it. Then ask each guest to take from the 
magic pot one "fortune scroll." When each has taken 
one, begin at one end of the half-circle and let each 
guest read aloud his "fortune." Each fortune will 
have to be held toward the warmth of the fire before 
it will appear, and as the children have not before 
seen this most magic wonder, it will be very mysteri- 
ous, and great fun for you who know that it is only 
everyday lemon juice! When all fortunes written 
on the papers have been made clear, let each guest 
read his aloud. That is part of the fun, you know. 
The fortunes, for this reason, must be made short and 
funny. 

For another "round" of fortune-telling, prepare- 
papers with witch writing that have the names of 

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various careers upon them: rich man, poor man, beg- 
gar man, doctor, lawyer, chief, cook, boarding-house 
keeper, writer, artist, editor, newspaper man, police- 
man, president, are many of the professions you may 
name. Never mind if girls get them — that's all the 
more funny! You will think of many professions and 
you may choose those that you think might be most 
amusing for your friends. 

Next, prepare a third ''round" of fortune-telling 
by drawing pictures — yes, real pictures on the pad 
paper with the witch ink. Let the outlines be simple, 
of course. Write under each what it is intended to 
represent. Mark, for instance, The House You Will 
Live in Some Day Soon, A Future Friend Who Will 
Influence Your Life, The Place Where You Go to 
School, Where You Ought to Go to Buy Candy, The 
Place Where You Will Find a Bag of Money, Your 
Lucky Sign, and many other things. Illustrate these 
with drawings of simple things like houses or land- 
scapes or objects. Then use these in the magic for- 
tune pot to try at the Hallowe'en gathering around 
the fire. 

Still another form of fortune telling that you may 
play with the magic witch ink is to write upon half 
of the papers the word Yes and upon the other half 
the word No, Then tell all the children to make a 
wish and turn around three magical times: bring in 
the potful of papers on which Yes and No are written 
and let every one choose a fortune scroll again. It 
will be said that those who receive ''Yes" will have 

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their wish come true and those who have ''No" will 
not. That, as everybody knows, is just Hallowe'en 
play and nothing more — simply fun. 

If you intend to have a little "party" at a table after 
this fun, decorate it with big cardboard pumpkins 
shaped first from patterns you drew. Cut these out 
for place cards and paste over each some orange-col- 
ored crepe paper. Outline on each a Hallowe'en 
face. These may be your place-cards. They can be 
made to stand with easel-backs pasted to them. 

Your last ''round" of w^itch fortune scroll reading 
might, if you like, have some papers with the names 
of the guests written on them. One at a time, let half 
the company draw till all have chosen a partner to 
take to the table, or to play a game again. 

They say upon All Hallow's Night 

That witchcraft will come true, 
But I hope that lots of funcraft 

Is what may come to you! 



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CARROT FUN 

Material Required to Make Carrot Fun : A meas- 
ure of large carrots. 

Tools Needed to Make Carrot Fun: A small 
knife for each contestant in the game. 

The carrot fun party is a gingham apron party. 
It is possible to use the game either for a Thanksgiv- 
ing or Hallowe'en celebration or for play in summer. 
Carrots are cheap and often you have them in your 
own garden. Some day they may be picked and you 
may make this game with them. Big, coarse car- 
rots are best. 

Pick at least two carrots for each one who is going 
to play. Pick the large carrots. Wash them and 
dry them. Then put them into a big basket. Collect 
enough knives for everybody. You are going to carve 
the carrots into all manner of shapes and see who can 
make the best ornament with one carrot. You will 
find that when the tough outer skin is peeled off, it 
is easy to cut the carrot, and with the blade of your 
knife you may make many things, such as baskets, 
flowers, heads of animals and people, toys, geomet- 
rical figures. The game may be played in several 
rounds, if you have plenty of carrots. You will first 

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need to explain that the carrots are to be made into 
objects of some kind. Write upon slips of paper 
names of objects to be made. Fold these papers and 
pass them around. Each child will have ten min- 
utes to make the thing named for him on the paper. 
When the ten minutes are up all players take the 
slips given them, turn these over so that the name 
of the object does not show, and place the finished — 
or unfinished — object upon the paper. Each paper 
must be numbered so that its number plainly shows. 
All finished and unfinished objects are placed on a 
long table and then new slips are given out with new 
carrots. The time is kept and carving begins again. 

When time is up, the new things are placed on 
the new slips again and the slips numbered and 
placed on the table. You may have as many rounds 
as you wish. The one who is making the fun party 
will need to have a pencil and a piece of paper for 
each child when the last round is finished and all 
have put their work on the table. 

Of course, some objects will be good while others 
will be unfinished and poorly done. To begin with, 
take a vote as to which object made is the best. Each 
child must write this number upon his paper at the 
top with the number of the object he votes for and 
what he thinks it represents. 

Next, he goes over the list of objects on the table 
numbering his paper to correspond with the numbers 
in the order of the things on exhibition. Each must 
write the full list as far as he can guess it. When 

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everybody has guessed the written answers, then you 
must go to the table, and tell aloud the number of the 
article and its name. The children exchange papers 
so that nobody will correct his own. It will be 
funny to hear what the carrot things were intended to 
be. After you have read the right name, have each 
contestant in turn read what his paper called the ob- 
ject. Some will call it one thing and some another. 
The guesses may be far from what was intended. 
Do this with every object in the exhibition till the full 
list of things has been guessed. Then see who has 
guessed most of the objects correctly. The winner 
should have some amusing little gift. You might buy 
at a ten-cent store a carrot pin-cushion for five cents 
or you might make an amusing necklace out of small 
carrots by stringing them upon a heavy strand of 
green raffia or cord. Do the package up in many, 
many, many thicknesses of paper, so that it has to be 
unrolled a great deal and untied many times before 
the final opening. 

See which object is voted to be the best and give 
that, too, some funny little prize. Almost anything 
will do. It is not so much the prize that counts but 
the winning of a reward that is amusing. You 
might cut a little badge from ribbon and tie a wee 
carrot to the ribbon. Pin this on as a "decoration 
of honor" — that is all the prize you need for the fun. 

Shoo! Don't 5^ou tell the secret: 
On Hallowe'en, look out ! 

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Vm goin' to play a-goblln 

An' dress up an' run out! 
I've got a Jack-o'-lantern, 

I've got a rattle too — 
Maybe I'll come to your house 

An' try to frighten you! 
Shoo ! Don't you tell the secret 

I'll dress up in a shawl 
I'll maybe wear a dreadful mask — 

You won't know me at all! 



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THE THANKSGIVING FUN MAKING 

Material Required to Make Thanksgiving Fun: 
A baking dish with wide brim, a large piece of brown 
manilla wrapping paper, some string and enough 
home-made jokes to fill the pie so every one will re- 
ceive a ^'helping." 

Tools Needed to Make a Thanksgiving Fun Pie: 

Scissors and brown or black crayon or paints. 

In November every one is thinking of fun for 
Thanksgiving Day's dinner party. Probably you will 
like to make something to contribute toward it too. 
Did you ever make a fun pie, I wonder? A fun pie 
is easy to make and it's the very thing of all jolly 
things for Thanksgiving. It is a pie made of jokes 
with a crust of brown paper — and it doesn't even 
need to be baked, for you may easily brown its crust 
with crayon. 

Keep your pie-making a secret, if you can. Pos- 
sibly you will need to let Mother into the joke be- 
cause she will be the one to lend you the baking-dish 
— but I'm sure she won't tell! 

How many are going to be at your Thanksgiving 
dinner party, I wonder? There is Grandma, Grand- 

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pa, Mother, Father, Auntie, Cousin Tom, Sister, 
Brother, Baby and yourself, perhaps. That makes 
ten. Maybe there are more or less but you'd better 
make a list. Then you must prepare some funny lit- 
tle joke for each member of the circle. These jokes 
may be appropriate little verses cut from magazines 
or newspapers — things about Thanksgiving. They 
may be little gifts that you can make yourself. If 
you have any money to spend, you may like to buy 
small favors to put into your pie. These you can 
get cheaply at a ten-cent store and all should be very 
small things, not more than two inches large at most. 
The ''penny store" is a good place to buy "jokes" — 
maybe for Grandpa who is always losing his glasses, 
you might buy a penny pair, and for Grandma who is 
afraid of spiders, you might buy a big wiggly Jap- 
anese toy spider to make her laugh, and for Daddy 
who is always on time, a penny watch. You can think 
up the appropriate joke and write something to go 
with it. Then do up every little gift carefully in 
white tissue paper and tie it with string or with a 
long length of ribbon at least seven inches longer 
than its looping knot. 

Put all packages into the baking dish and see if 
they fit in nicely. If they do not, you will need to 
put some ''stuffing" of tissue paper into the baking 
dish and fit it down first. Then the presents may be 
put in afterwards. But before you do this finally, 
get the shape of your pie-crust! 

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Take the baking-dish and invert it upon your brown 
manilla wrapping paper. Take a pencil or crayon 
and draw all around its rim to get the size of your 
dish. Cut this circle out, allowing at least two inches 
extra rim all the way around. Then turn it over on 
the side where nothing at all is marked. On this 
side, mark off the baking-holes at the center of the 
pie, as cooks cut them in the crust. Make one hole 
for each member of the Thanksgiving party. Cut 
through the paper crust at each marking — just a slit 
— and pull through it one of the ribbons or strings. 
Then take your long string and tie the paper crust 
tight to the rim of the baking-pan. 

When the crust is tightly secured, cut it where it 
may need cutting around its base. Make this neat. 
It should look like a real crust. Your brown or black 
crayon will help you to mark around the edge of the 
pie-crust. Then all is done. 

When dinner is ready, let the cook into your secret 
and have her put your pie upon a plate and serve it 
before Daddy. Then everybody will take a string 
and when you count, ''One, two, three!" every one 
will pull at once — and out come jokes for every- 
body! 

When Mama's bakin' cookies, the kitchen smells so nice — 
All cinnamon an' ginger an' different kinds of spice — 
I like to go an' stay there : I kind of hang about : 
Sometimes I get a cookie, sometimes I go without I 
But if I'm very quiet an' very good, you know, 
My Mama's sure to give me some of her bakin' dough. 

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An' then I'll make a cookie man when all the work Is done — 
He'll maybe be quite hard an' black but baking Is such fun! 
Most nobodj' will eat him. It's funny but It's true — 
He never tastes at all at all as Mama's cookies do ! 



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THANKSGIVING TABLE FAVORS AND 
MAKE-TOY GAME 

Material Required for Thanksgiving Toys and 
Table Favors: Bananas, lemons, potatoes, oranges, 
cucumbers, carrots, apples, cloves, raisins, toothpicks. 

Tools Needed to Make Thanksgiving Toys: A 

knife, maybe, and a pair of hands. 

Have you ever made Thanksgiving table favors 
out of fruits and vegetables? It is a jolly way to con- 
tribute toward the Thanksgiving dinner party. Al- 
most any kind of fruit or vegetable may be made into 
a toy. There may be one at each place — a banana 
boat, a banana mouse, a lemon pig, a potato brownie 
or an orange man, an apple person or a carrot Indian. 
You will find it interesting to make these. They are 
merely put together with toothpicks. 

To make an apple, orange or potato brownie, take 
five toothpicks. Use two apples or two potatoes or 
two oranges, one smaller than the other. Put the point 
of a toothpick into a large apple or orange or potato 
and press it down. Then put the smaller on top. This 
will give the head and body of the fruit or vegetable 
doll. Two toothpicks make arms and two more, legs. 
Bend these at the base into feet. If you like, the dolls 

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may be dressed in tissue or crepe paper. Their fea- 
tures — eyes, nose, mouth — are made by pressing the 
ends of cloves through the skin. An orange may have 
its face cut like a Jack o' Lantern with a small pointed 
fruit-knife. 

A banana may be made into a boat. Choose a rath- 
er flat banana for this. The point of the fruit will 
be the prow of the boat. You will need a thin stick 
to make a mast and a piece of stiff paper for a sail. 
Place the stick upright and press the paper sail upon 
it. Then the boat is done. 

The banana mouse or rat is easy to make. Cut two 
toothpicks into halves. Use one wee stick for each 
foot. The point of the banana will be the nose of the 
mouse. A tiny bit of white paper may be pasted 
where each ear should go and t^vo black eyes are 
made from two cloves pressed through the banana 
skin. The tail may be a long piece of ribbon pointed 
at an end or — better yet — a long strip of hay or grass. 

The lemon pig is funny: you will need a bit of 
grapevine tendril to make its curly tail. If you have 
none, a shingle will answer if small — or a twist of 
paper curled about your finger. The pig ought to 
have a long nose, so select your lemon carefully. Four 
toothpicks make its legs. Two cloves form its eyes. 
Bits of pointed paper pasted in place will make ears. 
And there is your lemon pig all done! 

If you are allowed to have these fruits and vege- 
tables, you may like to use them in still another 
way: you may have a Thanksgiving toy-making con- 

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test with fruits and toothpicks. Set the fruits arid 
vegetables on the table and see who can make the 
best toy from one or two of them. It will be quite 
a game! The toys should be put on exhibition after- 
wards and all who have been contributing to the fun 
should be allowed to vote as to which is the best of 
all. Let each write his vote on a slip of paper and 
put the votes in a hat. See who will win the most 
votes! Maybe a Thanksgiving greeting card will 
be a good prize tied to a bunch of raisins. Don't you 
think that this would be fun to play? 

Out in the kitchen, the cook had a pan 

And in it I found a potato man — 

His head was a knob that was really quite small 

And his body, a round little brown little ball. 

I gave him some legs then, two sticks that were straight ; 

I added some others for arms. He was great! 

I gave him two staring shoe-button eyes 

That looked up at me in the greatest surprise ! 

His nose was a button pushed into his head: 

His mouth was another, hut one that was red. 

He had a most winning and amiable smile. 

He entertained me for a very long while 

By helping to make me some jolly good fun; 

I played and I played with him when he was done ! 

Then Lmade a lady po-ta-to. Just see! 

I think she's as handsome as handsome can be ! 

They're now keeping house on my playroom floor 

Right there in the corner behind the white door. 

Sometime, you can make a po-ta-to play too, 

I know you will find it is jolly to do. 

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THE CHRISTMAS TOY EXHIBITION 

Material Required to Make a Toy Exhibition: 

All manner of toys and dolls that you and your 
friends have at home. 

No Tools are needed. 

Did you ever have a Toy Exhibition? It is really 
ever such good fun. You will have to ask your friends 
to join in making it, for there are seldom toys enough 
in one household to make an exhibit for every one, 
and probably your friends prefer their toys to yours 
and you would rather not give your best toys to some 
children, you see. So, tell the children that want to 
join in an exhibition that each must bring his own 
toys and make a picture with them. The picture may 
illustrate some story or it may illustrate a poem. 
Each child will have to think of something to illus- 
trate. In the December Fun pictured in this book, 
you will see what I did with a Santa Claus doll and 
some to3^s from a doll-house. The arrangement of 
toys illustrates The Night Before Christmas. The 
name of every picture made should be written by the 
child who has made it. 

Here are some pictures you can make: Noah's 
Ark, anybody can do that! With a toy horse and a 

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man-doll properly dressed in doll's cape and cap, 
you may make John Gilpin or Paul Revere. Just set 
your wits to work — even fairy tales that you know 
may be illustrated. How about The Ugly Duckling 
or the Mother Goose rhymes? 

Perhaps Mother will let you clear the floor of some 
room and have some extra tables, one for each exhibit. 
Then everybody will arrange his picture with his own 
toys, label it and have absolute freedom to do as he 
thinks best. 

When all have finished, you may make tickets from 
slips of cardboard and sell these for pins or — better 
yet — a penny each! The public will surely enjoy 
coming to see your toy exhibition if it pays pins or 
pennies. 

I am sure your exhibition will prove a huge suc- 
cess and it will have been good fun to make it and 
enjoy it with others. Of course no person who comes 
in will be allowed to touch toys that do not belong 
to him. That is never done at exhibitions — no never! 

The fun may be a good way to raise money. Per- 
haps the exhibition would be an interesting feature of 
a bazaar. In this case the doll exhibition may in- 
clude dolls and toys that are for sale, if you like. 
There are many children and grown-up persons who 
would willingly come and pay to see this fun. 

All In the shops at Christmas time 

You'll find a thousand toys 
For babies and for little girls, 

For daddies and for boys — 
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But penny banks may not hold much 

And purses may hold less — 
So you and I must make our fun 

And be content, I guess! 



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Favors of Pretty Candles to Give at a Christmas Partv 



CHRISTMAS FUN PARTY GIFT-MAKING 

Material Required for a Christmas Gift-Making 
Fun Party: Boughs of evergreen, empty spools, red 
ribbon in five-cent rolls, some fancy candles — either 
small birthday-cake candles or larger ones — some 
Christmas seals and a sheet of thin cardboard either 
colored or white. 

The Only Tools Needed Are Busy Fingers. 

At Christmas time everybody is making presents 
and, of course, you want to make presents too. It is 
often very hard to make presents — especially when 
one has no money with which to buy materials and 
when one does not know how to make gifts from ^^al- 
most nothing at all." But, I dare say you could join 
together with some of your friends and, each paying 
a penny, you might have a Christmas fun party and 
make gifts that are suitable for little remembrances 
that really cost very, very little. 

You must buy a roll of red ribbon. At Christmas, 
this can be found at ten-cent stores for about five 
cents. Some twenty-five or fifty Christmas seals, 
gummed, will cost five cents more, a box of birthday- 
cake candles or Christmas tree candles will be ten 
cents, and a sheet of cardboard will cost five. This 

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makes in all about twenty-five cents. It is enough to 
make many, many Christmas gifts that are dainty 
and easy to make. Let all the children who come 
to your gift-making party contribute some of the ma- 
terials which all are to share alike. You will also 
need to ask each child to bring his own scissors, cray- 
ons, and some empty spools. 

Arrange a big table for work and put newspapers 
upon it to cover it. Put newspapers under each chair 
to catch work materials that may clutter. It is easy 
to cut snippings carelessly and if you are careful to 
put the newspapers down on the floor to catch what 
may fall, it will save time and trouble in quick clear- 
ing-up. 

You will need to contribute some boughs of green 
fir or Christmas-tree for the use of all. Often at the 
places where Christmas-trees are sold, boughs are 
cut off and thrown aside. These are useless and may 
be secured for the asking. If you live in the country, 
perhaps you can pick some Christmas greens your- 
self. With these, you are to make the Christmas 
greetings and little gifts. 

Divide the fir boughs between all the children. 
Give each the same number of candles and an even 
share of all the spools and ribbon and cardboard. 
Then everybody will be ready to start work. 

Little cards may be made by cutting the cardboard 
into pieces one or two inches wide and made oblong. 
The Christmas seals may be pasted on them to make 
little cards. With your green crayon, you may make 

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a fancy green edge to each card and write upon it 
Merry Christmas. 

A pretty way to give a Christmas candle is to cut 
a twig of fir and tie to it a little fancy candle. Make 
a hole in one corner of your card and fasten this to 
it and tie a bow. This is easy to do and you can make 
a gift for everybody this way. You may do the pres- 
ents up in white tissue paper and tie them with gilt 
cord that comes at the shops in large rolls for five 
cents at Christmas time. 

Another little giftie that is fun to make is a wee 
Christmas-tree. To make it, you will need a twig of 
green fir and an empty spool. Color the spool with 
paint or with crayon. Fit the twig of fir tight into the 
upper hole of the spool — and there you have a tiny 
Christmas-tree! You may write on a cardboard card 
this little verse : 

Here is a tiny Christmas-tree 
That takes my Christmas wish to thee: 
The little gift may seem quite small — 
It's just to show my love, that's all! 

Probably you will be so busy at your Christmas 
gift-making fun party that you will not want to play 
games. Everybody is busy with making the pres- 
ents, you know. (I think, too, everybody ought to 
help pick up afterwards, don't you?) 

After the room is set to rights, just for fun, if you 
like you may play a Santa Claus Christmas game that 
is very easy to make : Take a spray of fir bough and 

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fasten it at one end of the room. Cut as many col- 
ored stars from paper as there are children at your 
fun party. Give each child a star with a pin. Count 
out to find the order of play. Blindfold each child in 
turn and start him toward the spray of green fir that 
represents the Christmas-tree. Each is going to try 
to pin his star at the top of the tree. The one who 
does this first wins the game. Nobody may feel around 
for the top of the tree — the first time one touches any- 
thing, the star must be pinned right there. Every 
player's name should be plainly written upon his star. 
If you like, you may also make Christmas-tree 
trimmings at your fun party. You have probably 
learned how to make pretty linked chains from strips 
of colored papers, how to string pop-corn and make 
ornaments by gilding nuts. If your mother thinks 
best, you may have some colored tissue papers and 
wrap candies in them. These may be used for tree 
decoration by tying them onto the tree with gilt cord. 
I am sure you will think of many other things to do. 
I have just told you of some that are simple and that 
cost hardly any money — and are fun to make. 

If you would make a Christmas 

That would last throughout the year — 
You need not make one Christmas gift 

Just give yourself, my dear! 
And make yourself a Happiness, 

A gift to every one, 
Of joy and cheer and gladsomeness, 

And merry play and fun. 

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CHRISTMAS-TREE FUN-MAKING 

Material Required to Make Christmas-tree Fun : 
Colored papers and wallpapers with figures and flow- 
ers on them, pine-cones, tinsel or silver cord, scrap- 
pictures, colored cardboard. 

Tools Needed to Make Christmas-tree FunrPaste, 
scissors, a big darning-needle and heavy thread, gilt 
paint. 

There are many things you can make for your own 
tree at Christmas time. It might be fun for you and 
your friends to have a fun party and "make things" 
for your own trees. All may contribute to share the 
materials needed: one may bring paste, another cord, 
another pictures, another papers. 

If you can gather pine cones, these make a pretty 
Christmas-tree glitter. Each cone should be tied with 
a loop of gilt or silver cord. Then each pine-cone 
should have a coat of gilt paint. Put newspapers 
down and work carefully; dry all pine cones upon 
newspapers. 

A chain for the tree may be made from papers: 
cut bright papers into half-inch wide strips each 
about three or four inches long. Put a bit of paste 
on one end of the first strip and join it end to end to 

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make a link of a chain. Keep on adding new paper 
links till your chain is long and lovely. Every child 
should make his own tree chain — see who can make 
the prettiest but share your materials together: don't 
you be a — a p'lggie! 

Pictures cut from colored illustrations may be 
mounted upon cardboard — cut only small pictures. A 
good size is about two or three inches. Sew tinsel 
around these pictures to make a frame and let there 
be a loop in the tinsel at the top to hang up the pic- 
tures on the fir-tree bough. Scrap-pictures may be 
used in the same way. (Where you have no tinsel, use 
ribbon or raffia to finish the pictures and make the 
loop.) 

Peanuts may be gilded and hung by loops also. I 
think, if you and your friends start out to make pretty 
things for your tree at your fun party, they will be 
able to suggest decorations that they know^ how to 
make too. 

'\\'Tiat is the loveliest thing that grows 

Over the world away? 
Maybe it's a bit of mistletoe, 

Maybe a holly spray — 
But I think it is a Christmas-tree 

With a gold star shining bright 
And colored candles even-u'here 

Glowing with flames of light. 



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SURPRISE PARTY FUN 

Material Required to Make a Surprise Party 
Amusement: A big market basket, a horn, several 
popular board games and some ^^refreshments," such 
as lemonade in a thermos bottle and cake and candy 
done up in packages. 

It is always fun to make a Surprise Party. Be pret- 
ty sure, however, that you will find a ready welcome 
at the hour you intend to make the '^surprise." Lest 
you should make a mistake and find your friend busy 
or away from home, it is wise to let some member of 
your friend's family know about the intended party. 
Ask your friend's mother or — better yet — let your 
own mother ask for you. 

If everything is right, you can then go ahead with 
your surprise fun. 

Find some big market basket and let each child 
who is going to the fun party contribute suggestions 
as to what games it will be interesting to play. You 
may choose three or four games — board games or 
card games — and put these in the basket together with 
some '^party eats." Then set out at the appointed 
time to surprise your friend. 

If it is a birthday party, each friend who goes 

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"with the basket'' should bring a pretty birthday 
greeting card or little remembrance and there should 
be a real birthday cake with candles in the basket. 

Round games are jolliest, but it is well to alternate 
them with some of the more quiet board games. If 
you like, you may arrange for three tables of games 
to be played progressively. The winner of the most 
successful "progress" should receive some little gift 
as prize. It need not be much, but the fun of win- 
ning it is jolly. 

Perhaps after games have been played, you would 
find it fun to dance. Make the party as gay as you 
can and happy for the one to whom it is given. 

When I was eight years old one day, 
The next-door children came to play: 
I ran to open our front door — 
I never was ''surprised" before! 

There's only one birthday each year — 
I wish my ninth birthday were here; 
For, maybe, they'd bring games and fun 
And cake enough for every one ! 



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THE MASQUERADE PARTY 

Material Required to Make Paper Masks and 
Wigs: Brown manilla wrapping paper and plain 
wallpapers. 

Tools Needed to Make Paper Masks and Wigs: 

Scissors and crayons and tape. 

A dress-up party with masks made from paper 
and costumes of pillow-case and sheets, is great sport. 
You and your friends may make your own masks. 
As for the costumes, you make these, as you know, by 
winding the sheets about your body. 

You may make masks for little home plays and for 
Hallowe'en. The masks are not hard to cut. Take a 
piece of heavy wrapping paper and cut this as long 
as the width of your face from ear to ear. It should 
also be as high as your forehead's top to your chin. 
Fold this paper. 

Take scissors and cut a triangle in the fold. This 
should be about the size to fit your nose. On either 
side of this, cut a round eye. Below the nose open- 
ing, cut a mouth — be careful not to make this too 
large. 

Take your crayons and color the mouth, the shape 
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and ears. Tie tapes at either end of the mask so that 
it will fasten. You will hardly be recognized when 
this is on! 

Another way to make a nose for a mask is to cut 
this out flat instead of cutting the nose piece out en- 
tirely. Outline all around it with crayon. Cut 
sides only. 

If you have some brown wallpaper or tan-colored 
wallpaper, this will make you an animal mask. Roll 
it into a very large cone. The point of the cone will 
be the nose of the animal mask. Cut around from 
the lower part of the cone. Make it large enough 
to form the neck of the mask. Fasten the large end 
of the cone together to make the back of the animal's 
mask head. You will need to cut big ears to paste in 
place on either side of the mask. Mark off all the 
shape of ears, eyes, nose — and possibly whiskers — 
with dark crayons. 

When you put the mask on, have some person fas- 
ten it upon your head. The end of the cone will have 
to be lapped tight around the back of your head and 
pinned. You will find it easy to see out of the eye 
holes. 

Sometimes, if you like, you may have a newspaper 
dress-up party. Your masks may be all of brown pa- 
per and your costumes all of newspapers! I dare say 
you never knew that you could make dresses from 
old newspapers but you can — yes, you can! 

If you fold a strip of paper several folds thick, 
it will make the headband of an Indian head-dress. 

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Brown Paper Masks Cut with Scissors. 




Indian Head-dress Made of Newspaper, Collar, and Newspaper Trimming. 



THE MASQUERADE PARTY 

Feathers for this may be cut from several thicknesses 
of paper. Cut these feather-shaped and fringe them 
with scissors. Paste the thicknesses at their centers 
and let the scissor fringe be roughened a little by 
your fingers to look like feathers. The head-dress 
can be pinned around your head and fastened firmly 
in place. It may be colored with crayons. 

If you want to make a funny wig, cut a small circle 
of newspaper and fringe it deeply all the way around. 
Then cut a larger circle and fringe this the same way. 
Cut still another circle and fringe this, too. If a long- 
haired wig is desired, add to one side a long square 
and fringe this — add still another and fringe this in 
the same way. Then take all the parts, putting the 
fringed squares one on top of the other under the 
big circle. Place the middle-sized circle on the large 
one and the smallest one on top. Paste all. When 
dry, fasten the ^'wig" on your head with a wire hair- 
pin. 

You may easily make a skirt of newspaper by gath- 
ering two sheets that have been pasted together to 
form a double length of four sheets. Use a big darn- 
ing needle and run it through the top of the newspa- 
per pages. Then tie these around you to make the 
skirt. 

A waist may be made by cutting a page of news- 
paper to ^'fit" by making holes for your arms to pass 
through. 

These waists may have collars and be very elabo- 

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rate. The collars are made of a fold of paper, double. 
Cut a half-circle for your head to slip through. Orna- 
ment the base of the collar with trimming that is cut 
of long strips of newspaper slashed or scolloped. You 
may make very fancy trimmings for your newspaper 
dress — just see what you can do! 

Long slashed strips of newspaper folded double 
may be snipped to look like cowboy leggins' fringe. 
This can be sewed to your trousers, if you are a boy. 
It will make a good cowboy suit for little dramatic 
entertainments that you get up at home. 

Use your own ingenuity in making and cutting 
these costumes. They may be of many kinds. You 
may draw upon the paper with colored crayons, if 
you like. 

You and your friends may make ball gowns as 
well as Indian costumes and cowboy suits. If you 
want to have fun, let each make his own dress and 
then have a '^parade" later. Let the household vote 
as to which costume is best made. 

There ought, of course, to be a prize for the one 
who is cleverest in making his fancy dress and mask. 
Mother may be able to find a prize, if you let her into 
the fun. 

One thing, remember: be careful to pick up after 
the play is over. Newspaper cuttings should be gath- 
ered up and placed in wastepaper baskets. Don't 
make WORK for somebody else in making a good time 
for yourself 1 

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I always thought that party clothes 
Would need to be quite fine 

But with some newspapers I made 
A funny dress for mine. 

It was a paper party fun 
We children made one day: 

We had a truly splendid time — 
I tell you it was gay! 

You wouldn't think that newspapers 
Could ever make such fun 

But it was most re-mark-a-ble 
To find what could be done ! 



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SNIP PICTURE FUN 

Material Required to Make Snip Picture Fun: 
A sheet of white cardboard or a big cardboard box 
cover cut into cards that are about six inches square, 
a sheet of thin black paper — or some rolls of dark 
pin-wheel paper. 

Tools Needed to Make Snip Picture Fun: Scis- 
sors and paste. 

Some day when you want to have a fun party with 
some friends, try making snip pictures. You will al- 
most always find the material needed right at home. 
If you hunt, you will find some dark paper that is 
thin, I am sure. As for cardboard that you need to 
paste your pictures upon — that's always to be found 
upon old boxes. If you cannot have a sheet of fresh 
cardboard, take a big cardboard box and remove its 
rims. Use the top and base of the box to cut into 
cards about six inches square and paste your pictures 
on the side that has no printing on it. 

Cut at least five or six cards for every child who 
is to come to play with you. Arrange a big com- 
fortable table with chairs seated about it. Place a 
chair for each child and put under each chair a news- 
paper to catch any work materials that might fall. 

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At each place at the table, spread another newspaper 
to work upon. 

Then, next, cut as many pieces of the dark thin 
paper as you have little guests to entertain. Make 
each piece of paper nearly the size of all others 
if you can. Lay at each place at the table a pair of 
scissors — and then you are ready to begin your snip 
picture game. 

Tell the children to cut their piece of dark paper 
into circles, oblongs, triangles, squares. These should 
vary in size from very wee, wee clippings to large 
ones an inch in size. All children must put their 
clippings in a general pile at the center of the table. 
When all have finished, then each may take a square 
of cardboard and start a picture. The snippings have 
to be thoughtfully chosen: see how few you can use 
to make a figure. Next, try making a house and 
landscape and after this an animal. See who can 
make the best picture. Number each picture with 
a different number in series as they are finished. Have 
each child write under his picture what the subject 
of it is. 

After this, let each choose his own subjects but 
make as good pictures as possible. All pictures con- 
tinue to be numbered and given a subject name as 
soon as finished. If you can do so, pin them up in a 
row on a curtain to look like an exhibition. 

When all pictures are made, take a vote as to which 
is considered the best. Nobody must tell for whom 
he votes. Take paper and cut it into slips an inch 

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or two in size. Let each child in turn write the 
number of the picture he thinks best, fold his paper 
and put it into a basket or box. Nobody may touch 
these papers till all have voted. Then one child is 
chosen by counting out. He sorts the papers and an- 
nounces the winner of the contest. 

Some rolls of pretty pin-wheel paper might make 
a good little gift for a prize. These are always useful 
for play. They may be used to help make valentines, 
or for paper dolls play or for making chains and 
pin-w^heels. 

After you have played snip pictures, you may like 
to do something else. Let the winner of the game 
choose what to play and, if you can, give every other 
child the fun of selecting a game he likes. If it is 
not a popular game, play only one round of it and 
then start a new one. 

All made of cubes and triangles 

I make a picture play 
By pasting snips of paper 

And making shapes that way. 

It's fun to see what one can do 

With every little part 
Of circle, square or triangle 

In this new Cubist Art. 

My daddy kind of smiles at it 

And then he says, says he, 
"You'll maybe be an artist 

If you keep on — maybe !"* 

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Cork Fun is Xice for a Rainv Indoor Afternoon. 



CORK FUN 

Materials Required to Make Cork Fun: An as- 
sortment of old corks taken from bottles. These 
should be washed and dried. Some cardboard is also 
needed. It may be cardboard taken from old boxes. 

Tools Needed to Make Cork Fun: Paste, scis- 
sors and a knife, if you are allowed to use a pocket- 
knife. 

Did you ever make cork pictures, I wonder? It 
is really great fun. You ought to try it on some in- 
door day and share the play with others. YouVe 
missed half the fun in life, if youVe never made 
cork pictures! 

You can start the fun right away. Do you happen 
to know where any old corks are to be found? Aren't 
there some upstairs or downstairs — or somewhere? 
Find them. (Best be sure you may take them and ask 
permission before you appropriate them. Mother 
will let you have those that are not in use.) 

Find corks of every size. Wash them off thorough- 
ly and clean them and dry them. While they are 
drying, find some cardboard and cut it into big ob- 
longs and squares. These should be cards at least 
eight inches oblong or square. 

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You will need some paste or good mucilage or glue. 
A paste that is quickly and easily made is a bit of 
flour and water mixed with a lump of starch and 
cooked till it becomes paste-like and thick. If you 
have no brush to use, make a long twist of newspaper 
into a tight roll and use the small end of it as a brush. 
Every child who plays with you should have one of 
these. Each may make his own. 

Now for the corks again! 

Arrange a table for work. Give each child a chair 
and spread a newspaper under it to catch any stray 
bits of cork that might fall and be otherwise hard 
to pick up. Lay a newspaper at each child's plate. 
It is easy to work upon this and it will save the table 
from injury. 

Cut the corks — some of them. Cut them thin and 
cut them into various shapes: long strips, half-circles, 
most anything at all ! Leave some of the corks uncut 
and place knife and scissors in the center of the table 
where all may have them to use. 

Take a pencil and draw some simple outline on 
one of the cards. Suppose you try to draw a house. 
Make the plain outline with two windows and a door. 
Make it about three inches long. 

Now^ see if there are some straight strips of cork 
to paste along this outline. If there are none, cut 
them. When the drawing is finished in cork outline, 
proceed to fill in the spaces of roof, chimney, and 
house proper. Leave window and door spaces with- 
out touching them. Wee pieces of cork will form 

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shingles for a roof. Long strips will form logs for a 
log cabin house. One square of cork will fit the 
chimney. 

To make a fence that will go about the house and 
form a garden space, cut long thin strips of cork. 
An opening in this will be a gate. Trees may be 
made of triangles with small trunks cut and pasted 
under the base of each triangle. 

When a number of children play with you, play 
a game with the corks: let each in turn choose one 
cork till all are taken. Then let each choose a piece 
of cut cork till all have been taken. 

The game is to see who can make the best picture 
using all his pieces of cut cork. Then you may try 
to see who can make the best picture with cork 
that is cut by the one who is making a picture. As pic- 
tures are finished, write a number in each corner. 
The child who has made the picture will write his 
name on the back of it. 

When play is done, line up all drawings in a row 
and let there be a vote taken to determine which one 
is best. Cut some little strips of white pad paper and 
let each child in turn cast his vote into an empty bas- 
ket or box. Nobody may tell what the number on his 
vote was. That is not fair. Nobody may touch the 
votes till all have voted. Every vote must be folded 
tight when cast into the box or basket. 

Count out to see who shall sort the votes. The one 
who has won most votes may have a little prize. It 

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may be a frame in which to put the picture. These 
frames are to be found at ten-cent stores. The prize 
may also be some pretty picture that would be lovely 
to keep and hang up at home. 

All manner of funny things may be made with cork 
and your friends will enjoy trying to make some of 
these with you, I think. Dolls that are funny are 
made with corks. Begin by taking some small cork. 
This is to be the crown of a high hat. Cut a slice 
from a large cork to make a hat-brim. With crayon, 
draw a ribbon of green or brown or black about the 
crown. This little hat may be useful in Mother's 
sewing-basket as a scissor-point protector. It may 
make a cunning little gift. But if you are making the 
doll, add another small cork, point upward, to the 
base of the hat. On this draw eyes, nose, mouth and 
hair with colored crayons. Paste one cork tight to 
the next below it. Add another for body and still 
another for skirt or trousers. Two small thin corks 
will form legs and bits cut from cork and pasted to 
the ends make feet. Toothpicks form arms — or, if 
you like, use them for legs too. You can make many 
funny people with the assortment of corks. 

Corks may always be bought at drug stores. They 
cost about five or ten cents for one big bagful. 

If you like, you may prepare a list of subjects for 
a picture contest like this: 

1. Sunset at Sea 3. A Woodland Land- 

2. Portrait of a Lady scape 

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4. Boy with Go-Cart 8. The Windmill 

5. The Old Homestead 9. The Daisy Plant 

6. The Pet Cat 10. A Still-Life 

7. The Barnyard Study 

Duck 

Let each child take a slip of paper by drawing one 
of these Exhibition subjects from a strip you hold in 
your hand. Each must make his picture. After- 
wards, a vote is taken as to whose picture is the best. 
All must be hung in a line and numbered. The name 
of the artist and subject of each picture must be writ- 
ten in clear writing on each card. 

You may try a game of Cork-Toss at your party. 
Find some box about three inches deep. It should 
not be too large a box. Give each child three corks. 
Color each set of three the same color. Use crayons. 

Seat all children about six feet away from the open 
box upon the floor. Count out for order of play. 
See who can toss his corks into the box. Each player 
has three turns to try in one round. All leave their 
corks where they fall and do not hunt them up till 
after all have finished playing that round of the 
game. At the close of each round, the score is count- 
ed. The one to obtain a score of twelve first wins the 
game. 

And the one to win will have the choice of game 
for all to enjoy next! 

I didn't have a thing to do one very dreary day, 

But Mother said, **Oh, but I know a new and splendid play!" 

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We found some corks from bottles — we cut them up snip-snip: 

We just used our old scissors and cut from tip to tip — 

We cut all size of cuttings, some round, some square, some long 

And little tiny bits of things. (To use a knife is wrong.) 

We just used old, old scissors. We snipped a long, long while 

Till we had all our corks cut and made a good big pile: 

Then Mother gave me paper and some good kind of paste 

And tied a gingham apron on around about my waist. 

She told me to make pictures from bits of cork, you know, 

By joining shapes together the way I liked — just so! 

I made a ship from one piece — it had a captain too 

I made it every single speck, the captain and the crew ! 



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A PLASTICINE PARTY 

Material Required to Make a Plasticine Party: 
A box of plasticine and some toothpicks. Some pad 
paper and pencils may also be needed. 

If you have a box of plasticine, you may use it 
some day to make fun for yourself and your friends. 
You have probably modeled many things with it 
yourself and you know what is easy to make. Select 
as many different things to make as there are to be 
friends at your party. Write the name of each ob- 
ject upon paper. Fold the paper and place it in 
some basket. 

When the children come, give each one a piece of 
pad paper to work upon. A toothpick is to be the 
tool used in modeling. Each child may have one — 
and if it breaks, another. 

Let each take one subject slip. Each is then given 
a piece of plasticine to make this object with. He 
must not tell what it is. At the end of ten minutes, 
stop the game and let everybody write down what 
the different children are making. In some cases, 
objects will be unfinished and it will be hard to guess 
what they are. The one to make the best list of cor- 
rect guesses will win. 

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You may play this game in several rounds. Easy 
objects to make are: 

a nest a bird 

a man a house 

a cat a tree 

a dog a mouse 

and I am sure you will think of many others like 
these. Be always careful to choose easy things to 
make. 

After this modeling fun, maybe you will like to try 
a funny drawing game. Each child must have a 
pencil. Prepare slips of paper cut at least ten inches 
long and about three inches wide. 

Tell each child to draw a head of either a person, 
a bird, or beast. Each must think of something to 
draw and choose his subject but say nothing about 
what this choice is. His subject may be ''A Little 
Girr' and he draws the little girl's head as far as her 
neck. Then he folds his paper down over the draw- 
ing he has made and leaves two marks at the base of 
the fold to show where the neck ends. 

Then, pass papers on to the next player at the left. 

The next thing to do is to start upon the paper 
handed you and draw from the neck markings the 
body as far as the waist. This includes the arms. 
Keep on making the object you started to make and 
when you have reached its waist, turn your paper 
down and leave two marks at its base to show where 
the waist ends. 

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Pass the folded papers on and next draw as far as 
the feet. Fold your paper down and pass papers on. 
The last thing to draw is the feet. You may disguise 
the markings by making double lines. Then the one 
who receives the paper — who may have started to 
draw an animal — will add four feet instead of two. 

Fold the paper down over the feet and pass on 
again. Then each one must write the title of what 
he first started to draw. Then fold papers up and 
put them in a basket. Let them be well mixed. Each 
player may take one. The papers may be unfolded. 
They are very funny. You will all laugh to see that 
the Little Girl has turned out to be some strange 
monster, like no little girl that ever was! 

After this you may have a game of real tag. It 
is to be played with baggage tags. You will need 
one tag for each person. 

Play the game of tag as usual. As soon as any 
player is tagged, tie a baggage tag upon him. This 
tag may not be removed. There should be as many 
rounds of the game as there are players. The one 
to escape tagging wins. It may be that more than 
one will win. These should be allowed to choose 
the next games to be played. 

Do you like to draw? I do 
And I like to model too — 
If you like to come to play 
We'll be artists some fine day! 



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THE INDOOR PICNIC FUN 

Material Required to Make an Indoor Picnic : A 

big market basket that is filled with picnic things, a 
table-cloth, some plates, paper cups, napkins, and 
picnicky good things. 

An indoor picnic is always fun. You may use the 
picnic idea for many parties, if your mother thinks it 
wise to let you have the necessary things. It may be 
that she will give you leave to make the picnic party 
up yourself. If you do this, arrange all the necessary 
articles like plates, tablecloth, napkins, cups on a big 
table. Then, as your mother permits, arrange your 
good things to eat. You might make bread and but- 
ter sandwiches, peanut-butter sandwiches, or any 
other variety that you know how to make. Pack 
these carefully in the basket, done up in paper or 
napkin. Maybe you will have cake and fruit too. 
These with dishes, tablecloth, cups, napkins should 
all go into the big basket. When all is finished take 
this very precious picnic to some safe retreat where 
there are no mice to get into it or little brothers and 
sisters — I'm afraid, yes, I am afraid — might nib- 
ble it. 

Plan the games you can play when your friends 
come. It might be well to make a list of good jolly 

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games to play at your indoor picnic, don't you think 
so? When the children come, you will be ready at 
once to begin the fun. When it is time for the pic- 
nic, tell all the children to go out of the room, you 
will let them come back later and hunt for the picnic! 
Isn't that exciting! 

But don't bring in the big basket! No! Just take 
a slip of paper and write upon it something like 
this: 

A funny little, happy elf 

Has placed the picnic on a shelf — 

You are the chosen one to go 

To secret spots where picnics grow: 

The cook has placed it safe away ; 

We're hungry : Please do not delay ! 

Hide this papeF slip — somewhere quite hidden and 
well hidden. Then call the children in and tell them 
to find the picnic. They will look under the couch 
and table and hunt vainly in all possible places that 
are large enough but they will never think of looking 
for anything small! 

If any child '^catches on" he may demand some ex- 
planation, so you may tell the children that the di- 
rections for finding the picnic are "somewhere." Then 
the hunt will start off again with new vigor. At last, 
when the directions are found, the one who finds them 
may go after the basket. Then you will let this one 
take charge of the picnic planning when all have de- 
cided where to "have the picnic." 

There are various places that might be fun. It 

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might be fun to have the picnic out in the hay in the 
barn, or up in the attic where on a rainy day the 
rain sounds so sociable pattering on the shingles 
above. It might be fun to have it right on the play- 
room floor. It might be fun to have it by the fire- 
side around a warm open fire. Much will depend 
upon the day of your picnic celebration. I am sure 
you and your friends will know the right spot some- 
where right at home. 

If the picnic is given w^hen the room is growing 
dusky at twilight, don't pull the shades down and 
light a light: have a lantern and have your picnic 
by that! It will be more of a spree, don't you think 
so? The picnic should always be a floor picnic. Did 
you ever hear of a picnic that was on a table? I sup- 
pose you have — come to think of it, I do remember 
having sat down to a picnic once-upon-a-time, but 
I think picnics on the ground are more fun and pic- 
nics on the floor are certainly quite as much fun! 

It may be good to know how to make special pic- 
nic serving dishes, for some time you might like to 
use this indoor picnic play in connection with some 
other fun party. You may also arrange to have the 
picnic search party in the form of another kind 
of game. Instead of packing all the picnic in a big 
basket beforehand, arrange slips of paper with the 
names of picnic things upon them like this: 

Tablecloth is out in the dining-room on 
a chair by the window. Go get it. 

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Little Home-made May Baskets Made from Small Picnic Dishes. 



THE INDOOR PICNIC FUN 
or like this : 

The sandwiches are in the kitchen. Go 
ask cook for them and put them on the 
table here, 

or like this : 

The cake is in the closet of the dining- 
room in plain sight. Bring it hut don't 
eat it, please. 

When all the picknicky things have been finally 
found, the picnic may take place — but not till the last 
direction slip is accounted for. Perhaps you have 
even forgotten yourself where you placed it — and in 
that case you can join in the general hunt! What 
fun! 

The special picnic serving dishes may be made by 
you beforehand and be found on paper slips all hid- 
den like the other paper slips that give directions 
for finding tablecloth and eatables. 

To make these serving dishes buy five cents^ worth 
of paper picnic plates. Fasten a strip of colored 
cardboard to sides of one plate by using brass paper 
fasteners. This makes a handle for a sandwich bas- 
ket. Paper napkins or paper doilies may be used 
on the serving dishes. You may make them of all 
sizes and from various picnic plates made of paper 
that come round, square and fancy-shaped. 

Paper ice-cups may be ornamented with pretty 

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"stickers" that are to be bought for holidays in 
special design. These are made by the Dennison 
Company and you can get them anywhere if you ask 
at stationery shops. They come with birds, flow- 
ers, butterflies, and hearts, witches and many other 
designs. All you need to do is to wet them and paste 
them on a paper cup to make a fancy decoration. 
They cost ten cents a box. 

Indoor picnics may be arranged in still another 
way: packages with individual "eats" may be hidden 
in several rooms. When found, they should be placed 
in the picnic dishes that have previously been put on 
a big table somewhere in a convenient spot. Or, if 
you like, these, as found, may go into a big market 
basket. You better keep a written list of places in 
which things have been hidden. It's much safer! 

Hurrah for a jolly picnic 
On a storn:y indoor day 

When the wind blows hard and the rain pours down 
And nothing seems fun to play ! 

Hurrah for a hunt and frolic 

And a party upon the floor — 
Hurrah for a picnic party 

With the children from next door! 



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A BALLOON FUN PARTY 

Material Required to Make a Balloon Fun Party: 
Ten cents' worth of ''penny balloons" and some 
string. Some fans are needed. 

How about balloons? Aren't they about the nicest 
things you know? They belong to processions and to 
circuses and to fairs and other jolly times — but did 
you ever happen to think that they might belong to 
a party too and that you might make this fun party 
with everyday penny balloons that come just as rub- 
ber bag-like affairs and have to be blown up? 

Buy ten cents' worth of these unblown balloons. 
There should be two balloons for everybody who is 
asked to your fun party. 

For the invitation, cut circles of red paper each 
just large enough to fit into your envelope. Write 
on this circle and tie a silk cord or fine twine to it 
to make the invitation look like a balloon. 

The invitation may be worded: 

Dear Wopsie: 

If your mother thinks best, will you 
come to my house and play with balloons 
on Saturday afternoon, please. Some other 
boys and gu'ls are coming and I hope 
you can come too. Your friend, Topsy. 



THE JOLLY BOOK OF FUNCRAFT 

When your friends come, you may begin with a 
balloon hunt. Before they arrive, do up as many 
of the balloons as there are children. Make wee 
tissue-paper packages of each little balloon-pocket. 
Hide these all around the room. Put them in places 
that will not be prominent and yet will not be too 
hard to locate in a hunt. Be careful to have nothing 
breakable in the room, as children who are hunting 
are apt to be excited and in a hurry and things that 
might break may be tipped over and cause a bad 
disaster. 

Tie to each little package — or wrap inside each 
package — a little card that says: ^'Now you have 
found your balloon, start to hunt for a fan to play 
a balloon game with next." It may be that some of 
the players will find fans before balloons. But you 
may avoid this by hiding fans in another room. 

When balloons and fans have both been found, you 
may arrange to have a balloon race. Give each child 
a number. 

Then arrange the children in order of their num- 
bers in a row. Tell them, ''One, two, three: blow 
up your balloon — go!" Each child should be given 
a length of string. Time the balloon-blowing to 
three minutes. In this time, you must blow up the 
balloon and tie it with string. The one to finish 
this contest first should win a number to be kept to 
use in drawing for a prize later on. 

When all balloons are ready, call number one to 
start. Have a ''goal" at one end of the room. Now, 

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A Balloon Partv with Colored Penny Balloons. 




Auction Fun Made with Toy Animals. 



A BALLOON FUN PARTY 

the first player is to start all by himself and see if 
he can fan his balloon to the goal and into it. Count 
the number of times that he waves his fan one way 
— toward the goal. When the goal is reached, write 
down his score. 

Next, start the following number. Everybody 
has his chance in turn. At the close, the one who has 
reached the goal in the fewest strokes, wins the game. 

It will be great sport to watch this game. All 
manner of things will happen — maybe the balloon 
will burst! In this case, you may give out a new 
balloon for play. 

An extra balloon may go to the winner of the 
game, for nobody ever had too many balloons! 

If you have a little lunch at a table arranged for 
this party, tie a balloon that has been blown up to 
the chair of each little guest. The place cards 
should be circles cut and made to represent balloons. 

After this fun, choose games that everybody will 
enjoy and make all your little friends have just as 
happy and jolly a time as you can till it is the hour 
to say good-bye and they must go home. 

Balloons burst quickly 

It's true — 
But I like to play balloons, 

Don't you ? 



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AUCTION FUN-MAKING 

Materials Required to Make Auction Fun: A 
pint of dried white beans and some toys. You will 
also need a hammer and a table. 

Have you ever seen an auction, I wonder? There 
are many things to be sold and the auctioneer stands 
upon a platform above the crowd and offers these 
to the highest bidder. When nobody will bid any 
higher, he knocks his hammer down on the stand or 
table in front of him and that means that the article 
is sold to the last bidder. 

Your auction will be made with toys. You may 
have an auction with doll house furnishings or an 
auction with animals that are toys. You should have 
about twenty toys arranged around the auctioneer. 

Make a written list of these toys. The auctioneer 
must give each one a number but he cannot tell any- 
body what that number is. It should be either ten 
or twenty. No person may know the number of any 
animal or toy numbered on the list of the auctioneer. 

When you have your auction party, give every 
player twenty beans. Then let the auctioneer start 
by holding up some toy for sale. Fie must try to 
make the purchasers think it a twenty value. Each, 

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as he credits this, offers his bid. The first may begin 
by offering two beans and the next, thinking the auc- 
tioneer is offering a value that is large, outbids him. 

The one who bids highest wins — but you can't 
spend all your beans at once. If you do, you'll surely 
not win the game. The game is to get as many 
valuable things as you can. You won't know their 
real value till the end of the round of ten toys. When 
ten toys have been ''knocked down," the auctioneer 
reads off the value of the ten sold. Each player adds 
his score and the one who has the highest score ob- 
tains ten more beans. The others obtain eight each. 
Then play starts again. 

When the ten have been "knocked down" to ten 
bidders again, the auctioneer reads the value of the 
articles sold and final score is made. The one who 
has made the highest score with his buying wins. 
He may be auctioneer for the next game, if you like. 

Number the toys differently for the next play: 
make them ten, twenty, thirty in value. Write the 
list of toys and keep it with values. This is alw^ays 
done by the auctioneer and if he makes a mistake 
and discloses what the real value is, he forfeits his 
place and another player is chosen by counting out. 

This is a jolly good game to play at any fun party. 
Any number may play it. 

I went to an auction one day — 

It was an auction over our way : 
The children, they were girls and boys, 

Had beans for money and sold toys. 

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THE QUEER PARTY 

Material Required to Make a Queer Party: Al- 
most anything you find. Paper and pencils are 
needed for each child. 

The Queer Party is indeed a funny party: you sit 
at table — but there is nothing to eat. You handle 
many things but you must guess what you handle, for 
you are blindfolded and cannot see it. Doesn't this 
sound strange! But a Queer Party is fun. It takes 
very little time to arrange for it and you may try it 
some day with your friends. 

First, you must have five or six small clean bot- 
tles. Fill one with some molasses, one with some 
toilet water, one with a wee bit of vanilla, one with 
a bit of household ammonia, one with vinegar, one 
with a drop of camphor or some other liquid that 
has a smell. Each of the bottles must be corked. 
Label each in order, i, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6. Put nothing else 
on the bottles. 

When the children come to your fun party, each 
one must be seated at a table. On the table is a long 
cloth. Each child must be blindfolded. You, your- 
self, are not blindfolded. Begin the fun by passing 
bottle number i ; follow it with 2 and 3 and 4 and 

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5 and 6. Do not start another bottle till the first has 
come back to you. Each child, blindfolded, must 
smell and guess what the bottle contains. He must 
never tell aloud what he thinks. He is given a chance 
to write it later. When all six have been tried, the 
bandages are removed and each child writes his 
guesses. 

Then the right answers are read and the one who 
has guessed best may have some small prize. A wee 
bottle of cologne will make a good prize. 

The next round of the Queer Party game is a 
test of feeling. Have six different kinds of material: 
silk, wool, rubber, kid, velvet, cotton. Number each 
and pass each in turn. These must be felt of with 
eyes that are bandaged. When six have passed, ban- 
dages are removed and answers written. A prize 
may be given for this — some small silk bag, per- 
haps. 

The final round of the Queer Party game is a 
test of feeling, too. Select several familiar objects 
that are not breakable. You might have things that 
are a bit intricate in shape. Each child must feel 
of the object with blindfold bandage on and make 
his guess as to what it is. When six have been passed, 
then take off bandages and write answers. Exchange 
papers and correct. Any pretty little gift will an- 
swer for a prize. 

After this game is played, you may all select one 
^'party game" that you would like to play. Give 
each child a chance to choose something he enjoys. 

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Let's have some fun sometime, 

Upon some stormy day, 
The children from next door 

May like to join the play. 

We'll make a party fun, 
And have a happy game, — 

Maybe you're good at guessing 
The things my papers name. 



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ENVELOPE FUN 

Material Required to Make Envelope Fun: A 

package of old envelopes and some crayons. 

Tools Needed to Make Envelope Fun: Scissors. 

If you and your friends want to have a scissors 
fun party on some indoor day, try making envelope 
animals. You will find it entertaining. 

Divide envelopes between all players and seat 
every one at a table. Spread newspapers to catch 
clippings. Put a box of crayons in the center of the 
table. 

Tell the children that they must cut out animals 
from the envelopes and that they must try to make 
a complete barnyard full. The crease in the en- 
velope always comes at the top of the animal cut, and 
if you cut strong, straight legs in the envelope that 
is folded double, the animal will have four and will 
stand. 

Paper heads must be pasted together to make one 
head and tails are to be twisted or curled with fingers 
to make them go up or down to fit the right animal. 
You may make horses, cows, ducks, geese, cats, dogs, 
pigs, and any animal you choose. 

After your barnyard is complete, make a fence for 

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it from old cardboard box rims cut off from boxes. 
See who can make the best barnyard. The animals 
may be colored with crayon on both sides. 

In the same way you may make a zoo. 

As a game where many children enter into the fun 
together, it may take the shape of a contest and a vote 
may be made, after all work is finished. Give some 
little prize such as you can buy — a box of crayons 
or some pencils will be enough. 

People may be cut from envelopes, too. The dou- 
ble cutting should be pasted together and the figure 
should be slightly bent through the center, verti- 
cally, to stand. 

I think you and your friends will enjoy making 
these envelope creatures. They certainly are fun. 

You may make a funny animal game to play at 
your farm party. You will need to cut twenty-four 
cards. Make them evenly, the same size: three by 
two inches. 

Write upon four. Donkey. Write upon four more. 
Cock. On the others that follow, write four each of 
Cat, Dog, Sheep, Cow, 

When you write these titles, four cards alike, use 
ink and write the names clearly, uniformly and large. 
Shuffle the cards into a pack. Deal them out, face 
down one at a time to those who are seated around 
a table. Any number may play. You may add some 
blank cards to make a pack come out even, if you 
like, where a large number play. 

No person may look at his cards. 

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When all cards are distributed, count: ^'One, two 
three!" Then the player at the dealer's left takes his 
upper card and turns it over, placing it before his 
other pack. The next follows him as fast as possible 
turning down his card. When names match, the first 
to call out the noise of that animal wins the cards 
that are turned over already by that player. He never 
wins more. These cards are placed, when shuffled, 
below the winner's pack of cards that have not yet 
been turned over. 

The first to obtain the full pack of cards that have 
names written on them wins the game. 

Of course, you know the noises that the animals 
make in the barnyard, but in order that there may 
be no discussion over the right noise, you had best 
tell all at the start of the game that certain noises 
are to be used: 

The Donkey: hee-haw 1 

The Cat : meow ! 

The Dog: bow-wow I 

The Sheep : ba-a ! 

The Cow: moo-o! 

The Cock: cock-a-doodle-doo I 

Any funny little toy animal will make a good prize 
for the winner. 

One very stormy rainy day 
We had to play indoors — some way — 
And be content and not be blue 
And find some jolly thing to do. 

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With envelopes we tried the fun 
Of cutting animals — Each one 
Would stand upon four legs quite fine — 
Those in the picture, they are mine. 

We snipped with scissors first and then 
We colored animals and men; 
We each one made a farm complete — 
And — oh, my duckies, they were sweet! 



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Fun with Old Envelopes— and the Animals are for an Animal Show, 




North Pole Fun is Played with Real Explorers. 



NORTH POLE FUN 

Material Required to Make a North Pole Party : 
Some china "penny dolls" and some cotton batting 
in a roll. A hatpin or some stick that can be made to 
stand will be the North Pole. 

Tools Needed to Make a North Pole Party: 

Some pins. 

I dare say that you have never before heard of a 
North Pole Party, My kind is a happy kind. It 
does not sail off in a boat toward polar regions, it 
just has a good time right at home. But it is an ad- 
venture, nevertheless. It is a "make-believe" ex- 
ploring party that is carried on in your own parlor 
at home. The only cold about it is the ice-cream 
that may — perhaps — come for "refreshment" if this 
is to be a special fun party, a party dignified by cake 
and cream. 

To start a North Pole Party, send out invitations 
to your friends asking each to bring with him a doll 
dressed as a polar explorer. The doll must not be 
more than three inches tall. An easy way to dress 
a doll is to wind cotton about the body, arms, legs 
and then wind these with white sewing silk or white 
sewing cotton. The dolls look much as if they were 

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really ready for an Arctic Expedition when all is 
finished. 

To arrange for the party yourself is quite simple. 
Buy a ten-cent roll of cotton batting. Place this all 
over the top of some table. Twine cotton around the 
table legs and fasten it on with thread wound about 
over it and tied. This table is to be the Frozen North. 
To add to its reality, if you like, you may sprinkle 
artificial snow upon the cotton. This is usually ob- 
tainable at Christmas time. It comes for tree dec- 
oration and you can buy it in ten-cent boxes at the 
ten-cent store. You may buy wee polar bears. They 
come as brown bears — but you can easily paint them 
white with white water-color paint. These are five 
cent celluloid bears that everybody will find at toy 
shops. 

The North Pole is to be made out of a tall hat-pin 
mounted upon a box. Both are entirely covered with 
white cotton. The pole stands in the middle of the 
table. (It may be a stick, should you prefer a sub- 
stantial North Pole.) 

When your guests arrive with their dolls, give 
a long pin to each. This pin should be pressed 
through the player's dolPs clothing. 

Count out for order of play. Each player, in turn, 
is tightly blindfolded and led around the room three 
times. This, laughingly, is ''for luck." Then, start 
the player whose turn it is toward the table with his 
"explorer." Tell him, his doll must find the North 
Pole. 

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The doll must be placed exactly where the player's 
hand touches the table first. Nobody may ^'feel 
around." Be careful to keep this rule! 

Some doll explorers go to outlandish places — prob- 
ably No Man's Land! Others arrive ^'somewhere 
near." It is all good fun for those who try and for 
those who watch the play and await their own turn. 

The winner should have a wee American flag to 
place at the pole. Those who go to remote regions 
may have bears given them to carry home as sou- 
venirs. 

You may play this game with toy boats instead of 
dolls or with sleds cut from paper that is folded 
and made into sledges. The game may be made one 
of several rounds, if you like. 

In passing ^'refreshments, " place a stick of pep- 
permint candy in the center of every dish of ice- 
cream. This will make a North Pole and a real 
"Frozen North" in each saucer. Frosted cakes will 
be the "icebergs" of the party, of course. 

It's fun to go exploring — 
A North Pole Party's fine, 
If all the cold is pink ice-cream, 
And icebergs, cake like mine! 

I wouldn't want to go and freeze 
Out In real polar snow; 
The only kind of cold I like 
Is pink ice-cream, you know. 

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PUZZLE-MAKING FUN 

Materials Required to Make Puzzle Fun: Paper, 
post-cards that have pictures on them. 

Tools Needed to Make Puzzle Fun: Scissors, 
pencils, — perhaps paste. 

Do you like puzzles? Well, I'll tell you how 
you can make some all by yourself. They are easy 
to make and you can use them in a number of ways 
for little parties with your friends. 

Begin by making one puzzle for your own enter- 
tainment — just to see how the puzzles are made, you 
know. Hunt up an old picture post-card. Draw 
three parallel lines lengthwise through the card and 
then draw four crosswise. Run this card through 
the sewing-machine, if Mother will let you. It will 
not hurt the machine. Use the needle without thread 
and let it go along the three parallel lines and then 
across the cross lines. This will make a perforated 
card divided into many sections that may be torn 
apart. Tear the parts from one another and then 
shake all into an envelope. Try to put the card to- 
gether again! Even though you know what the pic- 
ture is, it will not be easy. It makes a good puzzle, 
don't you think so? 

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If you want to make a harder puzzle, cut three 
cards apart in this way and try to put three together 
at once. I wonder how long it will take you to 
do this? 

Maybe you will like to have a picture puzzle party 
with some of your friends. You can arrange it after 
school some time and I think it will be jolly fun. 

How many friends will come? You must have 
a puzzle prepared for each one. When they come, 
give them each a card and ask them to write upon 
the back of it some funny message. Then tell each 
to tear his card and hand it to the child who sits 
opposite him. See who can put his card together 
with the picture completed first. Then see who can 
read the message on the back first. You will have to 
be skilful in turning over the whole card or else 
you may lose the right connecting link in your mes- 
sage written upon it. It will be quite exciting to see 
who can do it first. 

The first to read his message wins a prize: a few 
pretty post-cards that you may have collected make 
a good prize. Tie them together with ribbon or 
raffia and do the prize up neatly in tissue paper. 
For a booby prize, a penny post-card wrapped in 
an envelope and done up in many, many wrappings 
of paper, is funny. 

You may make a picture post-card game, too. Look 
over your old collection of post-cards. You will 
find many of the same place or from the same State. 
Mount these upon cardboard with good paste and 

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then cut the cards out. This makes a card game. 
There should be six sets of four similar cards — 
twenty-four pictures in all. Number each set: i, 2, 
3, 4. Write the general subject in full on the corner 
next the number and write the names of the other 
cards in that set also. 

As many as six may play this game. Shuffle the 
cards well and then deal out one at a time. Play 
is made in turn. A player, as soon as he takes up 
his handful of cards, sees how many cards belonging 
to each set he has. Of course, try to obtain the cards 
lacking in the set of which you have already most 
cards. When it comes your turn, ask some one player 
to give you the card you want. If he does have it 
in his hand, he must give it to you. If he does not 
have it, your play ends. Every time you obtain a 
card successfully, you are entitled to another play 
and you can ask another player or the same player 
for any card you desire. The first to obtain a full 
set wins. Where few play, the winning of two sets 
may make the game. And, if you wish, the game 
may be in rounds with a winning score of five. 

A large colored picture carefully mounted and 
placed on cardboard backing will be a good prize. 
It should be cut at least four or five times in cross- 
sections to make a puzzle. Put it in an envelope and 
do the envelope up in tissue paper. 

You can play Hide the Post-card at your fun party, 
just as you play Hide the Thimble. The card must 
always be placed in plain sight. 

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Another way to make puzzles is to cut a large 
circle about six inches in diameter and another about 
four inches in diameter. You may make some of these 
puzzles for your puzzle party. Take the small circle 
and place it on the big one. Then, take a crayon or 
pencil and write around the two and on both. Write 
a name or the name of an object or some short phrase. 
Then take the small circle off and join the top of 
the letters on the big circle in strange and unexpected 
ways so that nobody can tell what letters the tops 
have belonged to first. Keep this at the center of the 
big circle. Now give some person the two circles 
and ask him to solve the puzzle of what is written 
on the two circles. To do this, the small circle will 
have to be put back on the big one at the right join- 
ing — exactly. If your work is cleverly done, the 
puzzle will be a hard one to solve. 

Let the guests try making these puzzles. Seat them 
around a table that has paper, pencils and scissors 
upon it. Let each, when his puzzle is made, ex- 
change it with another player, and when all have 
made the exchange, give a signal of ^^Start!" The 
one to solve his puzzle first wins. You can play this 
as a game with five rounds and the one who wins 
most frequently should have a prize that you have 
made. It may be some picture puzzle made with a 
colored picture mounted on cardboard. Where there 
is a tie, keep on playing till the game is definitely 
decided. 

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I like to play at puzzles — 
For puzzles are such fun — • 

Can you imagine making them 
And making more than one ! 

I didn't know that I could make 

A puzzle till one day 
I heard the puzzle secret 

And made a puzzle play. 

We children gave a party 

At Jimmie Brown's, next door; 

We guessed a lot of puzzles 
And then we made some more. 



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Peanut Owls, People and Animals for Peanut Fun. 



PEANUT FUN 

Material Required to Make Peanut Fun: A bag 
of peanuts, some toothpicks, some small twigs from 
tree-branches, cardboard, and, perhaps, some tissue 
papers. 

Tools Needed to Make Peanut Fun: Colored 
crayons and, maybe, paste. 

Some Saturday or rainy indoor day, maybe your 
mother will let you have some friends come to see 
you and make Peanut Fun. A ten-cent bag of pea- 
nuts — or a five-cent bag for each one who comes to 
play — ^will be enough. You may even play with five 
cents' worth of peanuts — only don't begin to eat 
them fast, because, if you do, you never will have a 
chance to try to make all the wonderful things that 
peanuts will make! 

First of all, there should be a peanut hunt. I 
dare say you have often been to parties where there 
were peanut hunts — but did you ever get tired of 
hunting peanuts? I don't think you ever did! So, 
hide the peanuts all about — try not to put many of 
them together and never put them on very high places 
that are difficult to reach. Give every child a paper 
bag or a little basket to put his ^'finds" into as he 

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gathers them. If you like, you may sew little cloth 
bags and give one to each little guest. The bags 
may be kept and carried home. See who can find 
most peanuts. The one who finds most wins the 
game. 

A prize for this game is something you can make 
yourself: a peanut owl, truly lifelike, sitting in a 
tree. Did you ever see a peanut owl? 

To make this picture, you will need a big square 
of cardboard, a small dead tree-twig, some feathers 
from the chicken-yard or from a pillow that is moult- 
ing, and a bit of white paper and two common pins. 

Begin by sewing the twig to the cardboard mount 
to make a ^'tree." Beneath the tree, crayon green 
grass. 

Next, take a peanut and paste feathers all the way 
around it. Cut two small paper circles. Outline 
the rim of each with black or brown crayon — they 
are the round fluffy circles about the owl's eyes. 
Mark black circles at each center for eyes. Run a 
pin through each circle and into the top of the pea- 
nut to make the owl's head. A bit of white cardboard 
cut pointed and small will be the owl's bill. When 
the owl is dry, sew him to a limb of the "tree" with 
darning-cotton. Sew at the base of the peanut owl 
where claws should come, for the black darning-cot- 
ton that goes around the twig and fastens the peanut 
to the twig will look like the feet of the bird curled 
around the tree limb. If you like, you may put sev- 
eral owls together on one tree. These pictures will 

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make very appropriate little prizes for your party 
games. 

After the hunt is over, place an open box or basket 
on the floor and seat all players in a half-circle about 
ten feet distant. Play is made in turn. Each player 
sees how many peanuts he can toss into the basket 
or open box. The one to get eight in first, wins the 
game. 

When this game is over, try making animals and 
people out of peanuts. Gather all the children around 
a big table and put a paper down at each place to 
catch the ^^snippings" of work. Put a big dish of 
peanuts on the table and some paste, some tissue 
paper and some toothpicks. 

It is not hard to make peanut people and animals. 
The toothpicks are to be broken and pressed into 
the soft shells of the nuts to make legs or arms or 
tails as needed. The strange shapes of peanuts lend 
themselves to funny heads and strange bodies. Dogs, 
cats, chickens, ostriches may be made — as well as 
ever so many queer animals that have nothing but 
peanut language names and no home in any other 
country but Peanut Land. It is great fun to see what 
you can make. 

Peanut people may be dressed in tissue paper. 
Bits of paper pasted to the peanut shells make caps 
or hats or hair. Other papers pasted around the doll 
will make dresses, coats, trousers. There should be 
an ''exhibition of work" afterwards and the child 
whose work is best should have a prize — perhaps 

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some salted peanuts done up in colored tissue paper 
and tied with a pretty strand of raffia to make a 
''prize package." 

I think a peanut party like this will be ever such 
good fun, most any time, don't you? 

Dear children, here's a peanut owl as any one may see, 

He's sitting on a leafless branch of some bare winter tree: 

I made this funny owl and you can make one too — 

You'll only need a peanut, some feathers and some glue! 

The feathers are his plumage soft, — some dow^ny ones made mine, 

Glued round about the peanut, so. I think the plumage fine ! 

Two paper circles make his eyes, paste where they ought to go. 

And make a black dot on each one to finish each you know; 

Then with some heavy string or thread, sew peanut to a twig — 

A tiny one from ofE a shrub that will not be too big. 

There, children, is your owl a-sitting as you see 

He's roosting on a leafless branch of some bare winter tree. 



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THE GAME PARTY FUN 

Material Required to Make a Game Party: Six 
or seven board games or other games. 

A game party is what is sometimes called a pro- 
gressive party. There should be as many games to 
play as there are children to fill three, four, or the 
desired number of tables. 

A number is given to each table and the children 
draw for the table where they are to sit. There 
should be two at each table, or four. If you like, 
you may pin a number on each little friend who comes 
to play, in order of arrival. Thus, each will at once 
know his place. 

When all are placed, start play by ringing a bell 
or giving a signal of ^^Start!" 

Play for the full time that it takes the first table 
to finish one game, then ring the bell. Those who 
stand highest progress to the next table. The others 
who have not won remain where they are. 

Each player should have a piece of cardboard and 
when he progresses, this cardboard should be 
punched. Or, if you have no punch, paste a paper 
circle or star on the player's score. 

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at each table that have four players needed to play 
them. Where two play, games should be board 
games that two may play. You will probably find 
enough of the right kind of games if your friends 
help out by lending theirs. 

You may all club together and contribute one 
penny to buy a prize for the players who have pro- 
gressed the farthest and who have the highest score 
at the close of two hours of play. 

If you do not win a prize 

Try again some day — 
It won't pay to pout and fret — 

And call it unfair play. 

Everybody has a chance, 

You have had one too — 
Make the best of luck and say, 

"Here's hurrah for you!'/ 



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THE FAGGOT PARTY 

Material Needed for a Faggot Fun Party: A big 

bundle of twigs and an open fireplace. 

A faggot party is not altogether a new idea, but 
you may like to try the fun sometime when there is 
a cold evening and you and your brothers and sisters 
have friends visiting you. 

There should be invitations given to every person 
who is to attend the party. These invitations should 
be written on rolls of paper and each one must be 
tied to a small faggot. They may read like this: 

Dear JVopsie: 

You are invited to a Faggot Fun Party 
before bedtime to-night. We meet at the 
big fireplace in the living-room as soon as 
dinner is over. Bring this little stick with 
you and come prepared to tell a joke or a 
story that will last till your faggot is 
burned out. 

Sincerely, 

TOPSY. 

Do not attempt to tell long stories that have many 
details. Keep to simple accounts of everyday hap- 

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penings or stories that you have memorized in verse 
at schooL Each one may do his "stunt" in order 
chosen by the easy method of counting out with a 
rhyme. 

At the close of the fun, a vote should be taken 
as to which story was best. Then, sheets and pillow- 
cases may be distributed, if Mother approves, and 
you may each don one. Paper masks should be used 
and each person must be numbered. The one to 
guess who's who first is the winner. 

In the rosy firelight 
While the faggot twigs burn bright, 
Tell your story — make the fun — 
Have it gay for every one! 



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BOOK FUN-MAKING 

Materials Required to Make Book Fun: All man- 
ner of articles that you will need to "hunt up" at 
home, cardboard and an old calendar. 

Tools Needed to Make Book Fun: Scissors, paste, 
but most of all a nimble brain and a pair of clever 
hands. 

Do you like story books? Probably you do. I 
suppose you know them well enough to know ever 
so many titles of story books, too — even more titles 
than books you have read, maybe. You can make 
an entertaining fun party contest by illustrating the 
titles of books. It might be well to go over the names 
of the books you know and find out how many can 
be illustrated. You will be surprised! 

Take Mother Goose, for instance! That is not 
exactly a story but it is a book everybody knows 
well and it is easy to illustrate it with some toy of 
your own. Dress the toy goose up in Mother Goose 
style. You may use doll clothes. 

There is The Brownie Book: That you might il- 
lustrate with a picture of a brownie or a brownie 
made from horse-chestnuts — or even a brownie cut 
from paper. 

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There is Mont, the Goat Boy — why, that is easy! 
All you need is a toy goat and a boy doll! 

And how about Howard Pyle's Salt and Pepper? 
You could quickly illustrate that with a salt and 
pepper pot! 

Would two wee penny dolls in a dish of water 
make Water Babies? 

How would a toy flag placed upon a thick cork 
and put into an open saucerful of water make Afloat 
with the Flag? How about The Blue Bird? Can't 
you begin to think of dozens of other titles that you 
might make? If you can't, just get a boys' and girls' 
book catalogue or some catalogue of older person's 
books and see what you can do with it. It might 
make a fun contest some day. 

If you want to make a Book Contest, use book titles 
that are familiar to those who are to play — if the 
party is for children, try to keep your titles among 
the most familiar ones known to all children. You 
should have at least ten titles to guess. Arrange these 
in individual groups upon a big table. Cut the num- 
bers from some old calendar and paste it on a card- 
board card that must go beside each group. 

When your friends come to play with you, give 
each one a slip of paper and a pencil. Ask them to 
guess what book each numbered group stands for 
and tell them it is a book most children know. Then 
let them puzzle. When all have tried hard and 
done the best they can, have the children exchange 
papers and then read aloud the title of each group 

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with its number. See who has had the best memory 
and been able to identify the most book titles! 

A painting-book makes a good prize, if you want 
to reward the winner. 

After this, if you like, you may play the well-known 
game of Authors. I dare say that you have a pack. 
If you have not, any ten-cent store sells the game 
for five or ten cents. 

Perhaps you might like to make an Author Game 
yourself? You might make one in which there are 
only children's books and children's authors. I will 
tell you how to do it. 

You will need a sheet of cardboard to cut into 
playing-cards. Cut fifty cards. First draw them on 
the cardboard by making two lines, horizontal and 
parallel, three inches apart. Divide these into sec- 
tions, each two or three inches wide. Make your 
cards uniform in size and keep on making them and 
cutting till you have fifty cards. The game will be 
large enough to play with ten children. 

There will be ten sets of books in your game. Each 
card in a set w^ill bear the name of some character 
in that book. The books chosen are as follows: 

I. The Arabian Nights 

II. Alice in Wonderland. 

III. Andersen's Fairy Tales. 

IV. Hawthorne's Wonder Book. 
V. DeFoe's Robinson Crusoe. 

■ VI. Lamb's Tales of Shakespeare, 
VII. Kingsley's Water Babies. 

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VIIL Alcott's Little Women, 
IX. Mother Goose. 
X. Burnett's Little Lord Fauntleroy, 

You will play this game by asking for the char- 
acters in the books named. So you will have to write 
on the first five cards that are numbered i, the names 
of five important characters in The Arabian Nights, 
Write at the top of each card plainly in red ink, the 
number and book name of each set. 

L The Arabian Nights 

1. Aladdin. 

2. Ali Baba. 

3. Sinbad. 

4. The Fairy Perie Banou. 

5. Caliph Haroun Al-Raschid. 

On the next card of the set write the names thus: 
L The Arabian Nights 

2. Ali Baba. 

3. Sinbad. 

4. The Fairy Perie Banou. 

5. Caliph Haroun Al-Raschid. 
I. Aladdin. 

On the third card, begin with the third name and 
invert the first titles to begin at the end of 5. On 
the fourth card of the set begin with 4, and on the 
fifth card give the name of the fifth character in the 
first set. The name that stands first on the card after 

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the title is the name of that card. In this way you 
can tell what cards to call for. 

The second set is to be arranged in characters 
like this : 

II. Alice in Wonderland 

1. Alice. 

2. The White Rabbit. 

3. The Duchess. 

4. The Dormouse. 

5. Humpty-Dumpty. 

In making the other cards for the set, arrange them 
always in inverted order beginning with i and going 
on, to begin next with 2. 

Here are the cards for the third set: 

III. Andersen's Fairy Tales 

1. The Little Tin Soldier. 

2. The Little Match Girl. 

3. The Ugly Duckling. 

4. The Snow Queen. 

5. Little Tuk. 

Arrange these in the same way. 
Here is the next list: 

IV. Hawthorne's Wonder Book 

1. King Midas. 

2. Pandora. 

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3. Quicksilver. 

4. Hercules. 

5. Pegasus. 

Here is the next book's list of characters: 
V. Defoe's Robinson Crusoe 

1. Robinson Crusoe^ 

2. Friday. 

3. The Parrot. 

4. The Cat. 

5. The Goat. 

Set six is as follows: 

VL Lamb's Tales of Shakespeare. 

1. Rosalind. 

2. Miranda. 

3. Viola. 

4. Portia. 

5. Titania. 

Set seven is : 

VIL Kingsley's Water Babies. 

1. Tom. 

2. Emily. 

3. The Old Dame. 

4. The Sweep. 

5. Mrs. Do-As-You'd-Be-Done-By. 

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Set eight is: 

VIIL Alcott's Little Women, 







I. 


Marmee. 






2. 


Meg 








3- 


Jo. 








4. 


Beth. 








5. 


Amy. 




Set 


nine 


; is 


• 






IX. 


Mother < 


Goose. 






I. 


Little 


Boy Blue. 






2. 


Little 


Bo-Peep. 






3- 


Little 


Jack Horner. 






4. 


Mary 


Quite Contrary. 






5- 


Old Woman in a Shoe. 



Set ten is: 

X. Burnett's Little Lord Fauntleroy, 

1. Cedric. 

2. Dearest. 

3. Dick. 

4. The Earl. 

5. Mr. Hobbs. 

The rules for playing this Book Game are the 
same as apply to Authors. Shuffle all cards and deal 

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them out one at a time, face down, to each player 
seated at the table. 

Play is made in turn. The object of the game is to 
see who can get the most book sets complete. When 
it comes a player's turn, he looks over the cards he 
holds in his hand and he asks for the name of a card 
that shall go to complete his set. 

If he asks a player who holds that card with its 
name first in the list after the book's title, that player 
must give it up. The turn may continue till that 
person fails to obtain of some player the card he 
desires. 

At the close, the one who has most books wins. 
I think you will find it fun, if played at a party, to 
give some interesting book as a prize — probably your 
daddy will buy you one, if you ask him. 

In clover time, I love to lie 

In the green grass and watch the sky : 

The fleecy clouds that I can see, 

They make a picture-book for me — 

Sometimes a tiger or a bear 

Is in the cloud shapes with his lair; 

Often, I find a giant's face, 

Or, maybe, horses in a race; 

Sometimes, a sailing ship goes by 

To the far islands in the sky: 

I never could begin to tell 

The other things I've seen as well 

In the white cloud-shapes as they go 

Blown by the breezes fast or slow: 

Changing to something new they stray 

Across the sky the whole long day 

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Here are Doll Charades. Can You Guess what Book this Represents? 



BOOK FUN-MAKING 

And as I watch from grassy nook, 
I call the sky my picture-book! 
I love my books both great and small 
But my sky book is best of all. 



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TOY CHARADE FUN 

Material Required to Make Toy Charades : Any 

toys you may happen to have. They must be rather 
small. Doll house toys are excellent for this play. 
You will need a big cardboard packing-box too. 

Tools Needed to Make Toy Charades: A pair of 
hands — a knife or pair of scissors to cut an opening 
in the box. 

Charades are always interesting — but did you ever 
make them with toys on a small toy theater stage? 
Why not try the fun! 

Let your friends share in the fun. Take turns 
thinking up good charades. You will need to make 
a toy theater in order to act them out on its stage. 
To make the theater, you will need a big cardboard 
packing-box. 

Stand the packing-box on end. Cut out a part 
of its old top. From the front of the box, cut an 
oblong piece leaving this to turn inward at its base 
to make the '^stage." 

If you have pretty wallpaper, paste this over the 
front of the box. It may go around the sides also, 
if you like. Cut out from this the paper that is over 
the stage opening. 

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Run your hands through the back of the toy the- 
ater and fix toy furniture or whatever the ^'act" may 
call for. Then prepare the act by choosing what you 
need to illustrate it with your dolls or toys. (If any 
words or noises are needed, you of course give them 
from ''behind the scenes.") 

Prepare a good list of words to act out in toy cha- 
rades. Try these and let your friends guess — then, 
perhaps they would like to try the fun, too. See 
who can guess the most charades. 

Another play you can make with this toy theater 
is to illustrate books and stories in tableaux. In the 
picture, you will see Mother Goose is illustrated. 
Try illustrating individual verses from Mother 
Goose with toys and see how well the children will 
guess these. You will have to do this simply and 
without much detail, but avoid rhymes that are not 
well known and always try to make it a perfect repre- 
sentation of the rhyme you are aiming to picture. 

You can act out simple little stories with your dolls 
and toys, too. 

I saw a Punch and Judy Show, 

All plaj-ed with marionettes, you know: 

It made me think — and so I made 

A dollie's show with which we played. 

We had some doll charades one day — 
I used my toys and things for play — 
We took our turns to guess, you know, 
And it was like a puppet show. 

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THE BOOKPLATE FUN PARTY 

Material Required to Make a Bookplate Fun 
Party: Some blue print paper, some paper cut from 
dark pamphlet covers, a bottle of India ink, pen and 
paint-brush, also some transparent glacine book cov- 
ers. Waxed paper may do if you have no glacine 
book cover. You will need a basin of clear cold wa- 
ter and some blotting paper too. 

Tools Needed to Make a Bookplate Fun: Scis- 
sors, a photographic printing-frame. 

Have you a bookplate for your own books? You 
might try to make one yourself. It is really not hard 
at all, you know. You will need a photographic 
printing-frame, some blueprint paper, and some 
opaque dark paper. If you have some thin trans- 
parent architects' paper to draw upon, you may 
make bookplates of this, too. 

The designs are cut from paper. First cut a small 
oblong piece of the dark paper and then make this 
into a frame with a free-hand cutting of some design 
within it. Print this as if it were a photographic 
film. It will make a relief picture on the printing 
paper. When dry, cut this out and you will have a 

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bookplate. Write your name in ink upon it. Any 
other printing paper may be used. 

Another way to make these bookplates is a little 
more work but quite a good deal of fun: Cut your 
frame from dark paper, paste this frame on transpar- 
ent architects' paper, take India ink and draw a de- 
sign on the architects' paper. Write your name un- 
der the design, using India ink. Print the whole as 
you would a film and you will have a printed 
bookplate in photograph with your name upon 
it. 

If you take fancy patterns of muslin and put these 
over a piece of architects' paper on which your name 
is written, you may make a designed bookplate film 
this way. 

If you and your friends are interested in photog- 
raphy, it might be fun to make a bookplate party 
fun some bright sunny day when "printing is good." 
Each may bring his own printing-frame. You your- 
self may arrange the materials for general use upon 
a big table covered with newspapers. 

Architects' tracing paper costs about ten cents. It 
will go a long way. India ink costs twenty-five 
cents a bottle. You must have clean pens to use in 
drawing with the India ink, and there should be 
plenty of them so that children will not have to wait 
for them while others are using them. 

You may see who can make the best bookplate 
print. A bookplate, if it is a real bookplate, should 

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be something individual and personal. It should in 
some way suggest the one to whom it belongs. 

You may also try making designs of pictures on 
architects' paper. These may be printed in the same 
way. Give each child some crossbar netting of cot- 
ton and let him try to make a bookplate or designed 
picture that suggests an old-fashioned sampler. This 
may be done by putting the netting next to the glass 
in the printing-frame and then the paper with the 
design on the architects' paper. On this, place the 
blueprint or other printing paper. 

If you look at the picture of the bookplate fun in 
this book, you will see how the finished prints look, 
and how I made my designs with India ink. The 
dark part of the paper fxlm made in India ink will 
be white in the print. 

You may trace designs from books and use these 
in making your bookplate, too. Flowers, leaves, 
ferns — just a small spray — may be mounted on ar- 
chitects' paper upon which your name is written. 
These natural objects may be used to make a silhou- 
ette design. 

It will be fun to see who can make the prettiest 
and most appropriate bookplate and picture, don't 
you think so ? 

If you really like a book, 

Treat the book with care: 
Keep your name within its leaves 

On the cover there. 

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Here are Pictures Made Just for Fun at a Sticker Party, 



THE BOOKPLATE FUN PARTY 

Make a bookplate for yourself, 

It will be quite fine 
Printed in a photograph 

With your own design. 



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FUN WITH STICKER LABELS 

Material Required to Make Sticker Picture Fun : 

Some boxes of labels and stickers, and cardboard that 
can be cut into mounts. 

Tools Needed to Make Sticker Fun : Scissors. 

Did you ever know that sticker labels would make 
pictures? I dare say you wouldn't have believed it, 
would you, if I hadn't told you! Surely you can 
make pictures with them. Why not try, and when 
you know how and want a new way to entertain some 
little friends at a party, you can have a Sticker Pic- 
ture-Making Contest. 

The pictures are made by cutting labels. You cut 
the labels any way you wish and paste them in dif- 
ferent positions on the cardboard mounts. Each play- 
er in the contest is entitled to use two stickers to 
make one picture, three for another, four for an- 
other. More than four may not be used. 

Place a big table for the children to work at. 
Have cardboard mounts enough to go around the 
table three times or four times, one mount apiece for 
three or four rounds of the game. 

Make a list of subjects like this : 

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First Round: Make an animal. 
Second Round: Make a person. 
Third Round: Make a house. 
Fourth Round: Make a flower. 

Give ten minutes to make one picture. Then start 
the next subject. Each time, children who take long- 
er than they should, forfeit the unfinished work that 
is undone when call of "Time's up!" is made. 

At the close, all finished pictures are gathered up 
and their artists WTite their names on the back of 
work handed in. Each picture is numbered and 
placed on exhibition. 

Then players vote as to which is the best of all. 
This is done by casting papers, folded and written 
upon, into a hat or a basket. Count is made as to 
w^hich has most votes. You may vote for second 
best, third best and so on, if you like. A lollypop 
might be a good prize. 

After this, pin a sticker with the name of some 
animal or noted person or place to the back of each 
child. He must guess what is on his own back. The 
other players may see what he is but the fun is to 
make him guess by degrees. Nobody may answer 
another's questions except by, "Yes" or "No." The 
question should be phrased like this: "Am I George 
Washington?" The answer may be only one word, 
"Yes" or "No." 

You wouldn't think that simple things like labels could be 

play- 
But with some sticker labels once we made a party day! 

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TRADE-MARK ANAGRAM FUN 

Material Required to Make Trade-Mark Ana- 
gram Fun: Some advertisements cut from old mag- 
azines and some good stiff paper. 

Tools Needed to Make Trade-Mark Fun: Scis- 
sors and paste. 

Do you like to play Anagrams? If so, you will 
probably like to ask some little friends to come over 
some afternoon to play Trade-Mark Anagrams with 
you. It is quite as much fun and much newer than 
the game with which you are familiar. 

Cut all large advertising trade-marks from the 
text of the printed pages. Cut also any very large 
text that does not contain trade-marks. Use only 
the large, clear text but it need not be of a similar 
type. 

Take thin cardboard and paste the words all flat 
upon this. Do the work carefully so that words are 
secure on the cardboard. Then cut each letter, mak- 
ing oblongs. This is a quick way to work. You 
may take more time and cut out even squares, each 
a half-inch in size. Then cut your words and paste 
a different letter on each square. 

When you and your friends play this game, turn 

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all squares over so that no letters show. Have each 
player draw two letters to start the game. Then, after 
this, draw one letter at a time in regular turn. Take 
these from the center pile. 

See who can make the most trade-marks or names 
of goods advertised in the magazines. It might be 
well for you to prepare a list of these when you are 
making your game and cutting things out. Then you 
will have them before your very eyes. 

If any player makes a trade-mark or name of some 
advertised goods such as Campbell or Heinz or Col- 
gate or Cox or Knox, he must also name the article 
that the trade-mark advertises as Heinz' fifty-seven 
varieties of pickles or Campbell's tomato soup. These 
words may not be touched and the one who first 
makes five wins the game. 

Any player who can incorporate an opponent's 
unused letters — one or more — to make a trade-mark 
with his own letters may take these from any other 
player without remonstrance. 

Any article may be a prize for the winner, if you 
intend to give a prize. It is the fun of play that 
is its own reward, but if you play this game at a 
party you might give some advertised article for a 
prize — a box of the Sunshine Wafers would be a 
good prize. This prize may be opened and shared, 
if your mother will let you make a few glasses of 
lemonade for your fun party. 

If I were rich I'd like to buy 
What advertisements show — 

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And I would buy 'most everything 
That's advertised, I know: 

Tiie fifty-seven different kinds 
Of pickles, I would test — 

I'd eat all kinds of different things 
And find out which was best. 



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Can You Guess what is Taken from these Advertising Pictures? 



GUESSING GAME FUN 

Material Required to Make Guessing Fun: Ad- 
vertisements cut from old magazines and some large 
sheets of pad paper. 

Tools Needed to Make Guessing Fun: Scissors 
and paste. 

Sometime you may like to know how to make a 
good picture-guessing contest. You may make it with 
advertising pictures that occur many times in the 
magazines and are thoroughly familiar. Do not use 
those that are unfamiliar. 

Find a big pile of magazines and make careful 
selections. You should have at least thirty pictures 
for your contest. Cut each picture out so that the 
name of the article does not appear and the picture 
of the article itself is not visible. In an Ivory Soap 
advertisement cut out all references to ivory and cut 
out the picture of the cake of soap. In an advertise- 
ment of Dutch Cleanser, cut out the picture of the 
can and the name also. Do this to all full-page pic- 
tures and do not use pictures that are smaller than 
a half-page size of a small magazine. 

Mount each picture upon a sheet of white pad 

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paper. Number each picture and pin it upon a cur- 
tain or portiere. 

When each child guest comes, give him pencil and 
paper and ask him to guess the name of the article 
that is missing in the picture as well as to write the 
name of it. 

This may be a game that older persons will enjoy 
playing with children. It is always a rather difficult 
game, for it is hard to remember names even when 
one can tell that the article advertised is some kind 
of butter marketed in packages. The name of the 
brand is difficult to remember even if the picture 
is easy. It will be good fun to see who has the best 
memory! 

If you want to make this a prize-winning contest, 
give a box of Uneeda Wafers. A booby prize of a 
dunce's cap made by pasting a paper cone together 
and covering it with flowered wallpaper, will cause 
a laugh. If, however, the booby prize should go to 
some person who cannot enter into the humor of the 
fun that wins a booby prize, do not give it out. Be 
very careful never to hurt another person's feelings 
in this way. Such hurts may seem small to you but 
to some sensitive person who has not a happy faculty 
of guessing things quickly and who is shy, this might 
hurt badly. 

After all have written their guesses, of course the 
method is to exchange papers and correct. One play- 
er reads the correct list of advertisements and the 

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name of each article omitted from it. Correct the 
papers each time a new picture's name is read off. 

When I don't know what to do, 

I make a funcraft-play — do you? 

Perhaps, upon some rainy day, 

I will prepare a "party" play: 

Then I invite 'most every one 

And we all have some jolly fun. 

I like the parties that I make, 

Though we can't have ice-cream and cake. 



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HOBO FUN 

Material Required to Make Hobo Fun: Adver- 
tisements cut from the backs of magazines and a sheet 
of cardboard. 

Tools Needed to Make Hobo Fun: Scissors, 
crayons, ruler, pencils. 

If you and your friends want some fun some day, 
have a Hobo Party. Ask everybody to come to it 
dressed in hobo style. At the fun party you v^ill 
play a Hobo Game that will need to be made be- 
forehand. 

Find a sheet of cardboard, a ruler, some crayons, 
paste, and some old magazines. 

Rule your cardboard to make thirty-six cards, 
making each card two inches wide and four inches 
long. 

Set aside eighteen cards when all have been care- 
fully cut out. On the remaining eighteen, paste pic- 
tures. These pictures must be pictures of food cut 
from magazine advertisements. You will find adver- 
tisements of breakfast food dishes, soups, pickles, 
cake, coffee, oranges, and many other food pictures 
— indeed there will be quite enough for more than 
one set of cards. Choose the best eighteen pictures 

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and paste one on each card. Let the cards dry flat 
and do not use very large pictures. If you like, you 
may include things to wear, such as boots, shoes, 
stockings, coats, shirts. 

Make a list of all the different articles that are 
illustrated in the game and keep it on the table when 
you play. 

The game is played with six persons. If there are 
five or seven who wish to play, remove one blank 
card from the unillustrated pile. The cards, when 
dealt out, should come out evenly. 

Seat players around a table and shuffle the picture 
cards in with the blank cards. Deal out one at a 
time face down to each player. When all cards are 
evenly distributed, players may take up their hands 
and look at cards — but they must not tell what is in 
their hand and they must be careful not to show their, 
cards by careless motions. Hold the handful of cards 
in your right hand spread out like a fan. Hold it 
as close as you can to prevent any other person from 
seeing it. 

The object of Hobo Hand-Out is to obtain a full 
handful of picture cards. Play is made in turn, 
starting at the dealer's left. The first player begins 
by asking for something that is in the written list 
but is not in his own hand. In asking, try to phrase 
your request in real hobo language: ^'Please, missus, 
can I have a pair of shoes, I've walked all the way 
from Boston to Chicago with nothing but newspapers 
in me feet for soles." Or it may be, ^'Please, sir, can 

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you give me a night's lodging in your barn and a 
cup of coffee?" 

The other player, if he does not have the card, 
replies, ''I just gave away the last pair to our junk- 
man. There are none in the house.'' Or he may say, 
^WeVe finished our breakfast and the cook has 
cleared away the things. Get right off my premises 
or the dog will be after you." 

A player may address his request to any one at 
the table. If the reply is, '^Fll see what I can do 
for you," draw a card from that player's hand. It 
may be the card you want or it may not be. Don't 
tell but keep it in your hand. If you draw the card 
you asked for, you have another turn. No player may 
have more than two turns. As play progresses, some 
players will have to drop out of the game if they 
meet with heavy losses of cards. But these are said 
to have ^^reformed." There is still plenty of interest 
to watch other players, so they must keep their places 
and be careful not to give away any information. In 
a large game, five pictured articles win. It may, 
however, be difficult to keep these. Hobos are keen! 
If you want to play the game progressively at several 
tables, make other packs of cards. If you wish to use 
a game with more than seven players, add more cards 
.to the original pack — half and half, six new cards 
for each player added to the game. 

A funny prize would be a real pie. Of course, 
all should share this at a feast of the hobo party 
afterwards — but the ^'largest half" should go to the 

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Here is a Game called Ho1)0 Hand-Out. Made with Magazine Food 

Advertisements. 




This is a Game called Bargains in Which One has to Match Pieces of 

Advertisements. 



HOBO FUN 

winner. A funny booby prize is a sandwich done up 
in waxed paper and then wrapped in newspaper. 

I don't believe I'd like to be 

A "hobo," really true, 
But it is fun to play the game — 

It's funny and quite new. 



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BARGAIN HUNTING FUN 

Material Required to Make a Game of Bargain 
Fun: A great many pictures of advertised articles 
that are found in the backs of magazines. 

Tools Needed to Make a Game of Bargain Fun: 

Scissors. 

It is always good fun to shop and the bargain coun- 
ter with its pile of "special goods" makes an appeal 
to thrifty folk even though one may not need what 
is placed upon it. It will be a jolly game to make 
Bargains that one may grab and appropriate even 
though one has no money to spend. Suppose you 
make a game to play with your friends and suppose 
you give a fun party with it some afternoon. 

Find a large pile of old magazines. Look them 
over carefully. Cut or tear from each page some 
large illustrated advertisement of some interesting 
article. It may be the picture of an Elgin watch; 
it may be a can of Dutch Cleanser; it may be a can 
of Campbell's soup; it may be the big picture of a 
toothbrush. Each picture that you use must be at 
least four inches square or long. It may even be 
larger. Some advertisements may be cut out as the}^ 
stand on the page. Others may be cut out in such 

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a way that only the article remains as cut-out. If 
you do cut out the articles, use only the largest pic- 
tures. Mix both cut-outs and square-cut advertise- 
ments in a big pile. Make as many pictures of bar- 
gains for your game as possible but do not repeat 
the same article more than twice if you can help. 

Cut each article or advertisement into two pieces. 
Make a straight cut that divides the picture of the 
article in a way easy to ''match up." Some very 
large picture advertisements may be cut three times. 
Place all pieces together in a pile and mix them all 
up. 

When you and your friends play the game, see who 
can pull out a half a paper and match it. Don't take 
more than one-half of a paper at a time from 
the general pile on the ''bargain counter." If you do, 
you cannot play the game. Don't make that serious 
mistake ! 

As soon as you have found one piece in the pile 
that matches and fits your other half, you are entitled 
to keep the two halves that fit. Keep all your bargains 
matched this way. The one to get most of them will 
win the game. If you tear or grab a piece of paper 
that is on the table, you must forfeit one of your 
bargains and return it to the general heap to be 
mixed in with other pieces and matched again. As 
soon as you see that one piece does not fit, put it back 
on the pile and take another. Play continues without 
turn till all have matched up the pieces and the last 
one is taken. The one who has most wins. 

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Anything will do for a prize. Be sure to tie a tag 
or put a price mark on it, ^'To-day, $.98 only." 

If you are to have a table and a spread at your 
fun party, a good way to arrange ^Svho will take 
out who" and sit together is to give each guest a 
sample of cloth to match. There are two alike and 
the two that match sit together. 

If you want to go a-shopping, 

There Is a game to play — 
It is a splendid kind of fun 

To make some stormy day. 

You have to hunt for pictures, 

And cut them out, each one, 
Then turn them into "bargains" 

To make a game for fun. 

You have to "match" the pieces 

Upon the table there; 
The one to get most bargains 

Will win the prize — That's fair ! 



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GARDEN PARTY FUN 

Materials Required to Make Garden Party Fun: 
Outdoor games of all kinds, amusements that may be 
carried on and enjoyed outdoors. Besides these, you 
may have flags and banners for decorative purposes 
or colored papers and Japanese lanterns. 

It is splendid fun to get up a garden party in sum- 
mer. You will need to choose either your garden or 
one in which you have permission to play at some 
friend's home. You will need help of other children 
in getting up the entertainment. Choose those who 
enjoy working and those who can work well and 
happily together. 

You must, first of all, decide what kind of lawn 
party you want. Is it to be just a little social gather- 
ing of friends? Is it to be something in the nature 
of a fair or bazaar? Is it to be a fancy-dress affair? 
These are all forms of lawn party, you know. 

The simplest will be very little work to arrange. 
You will need to think up some amusements. You 
might make a game of quoits with an upright stake 
— a hoop-stick will answer — fitted tight down in the 
earth or on the grass somewhere. The rings for this 
game may be large rubber bands from preserve jars. 
Large wooden curtain rings or brass curtain rings 

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will answer, too. You may also make a quoit game 
by standing an upright stake in a box cover. Rings 
may be made of twisted rope. There should be four 
rings. Players stand at a distance of six or eight feet 
and try to see w^ho can get a score of twelve, throwing 
the rings one after the other at one turn. Each time 
a ring goes on the stake, it counts one. 

Another game you may arrange for is archery. 
You will need to make bows and arrows. These need 
not be made from expensive materials. You may 
make them from long straight twigs of willow or 
other pliable wood. They may be about three feet 
long when bent. Fasten stout cord at either end of 
the wooden twigs or boughs and bend gently, mak- 
ing the wood curve. Then see that the string is 
quite tight and firm at each end. Arrows are smaller 
lengths of willow. They may have a point whittled 
at one end and a notch at the back. Your target will 
be a paper one. You may take a round bandbox cover 
and mark it off into circles colored with crayon. 
This, you can fasten to an upright stick set low in 
the ground. Other targets may be made in form of 
cardboard animals fastened to wooden backs with a 
stick that may be pressed into the ground at the rear. 
This will hold them firm. Cut the cardboard an- 
imals about a foot or two in length. Color them 
with crayons, if you like. Use them for an archery 
contest. See who can hit them at a far range in 
fewest turns. You may judge of the range by the 
power of your bow. 

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Still another game you may make is called Clock 
Golf. This game is to be played in a circle. You 
will need to mark a circle about ten feet in diameter 
right on some smooth place of grassy lawn. The 
chalk will answer for this. Use a tennis marker. 
On the circumference of this circle, make twelve 
"holes," each equally distant one from the other. If 
you look at the face of a clock, you will be able to 
place the holes in about the right spots. The holes 
may be food tins sunk in the ground. Be careful to 
do the work where it will not injure the lawn. There 
are plenty of spots in a garden where one may lay 
out a course for clock golf. It need not be in a 
place where holes sunk in the turf will show a dis- 
figurement. 

Make large cardboard disks, each six inches round 
and number each one — twelve of them — in order like 
the numbers of a clock-face. The game is played 
with a golf ball. Putt in from the center of the clock 
dial and begin with the first "hole," going on till you 
come to twelve. The one to reach all holes in order 
in the fewest strokes of his club will be winner. 

Croquet is still another good game for a lawn 
party. You cannot make a croquet set for outdoor 
use but, probably, you have one or can borrow one. 

Bean-bag is a game that is suited to use for a lawn 
party. You may make bean-bags yourself. Each 
should be made with stout linen lining. Make the 
bags at least five inches square and fill each with 
two-thirds of a pint of large beans. Make a cover 

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for each bag that is attractive in coloring. You may 
sew pretty gingham covers for each bag. You, your- 
self, know games that may be played with bean-bag. 
One is commonly called School. To play this, stand 
all children in a row and count out to see who shall 
be "teacher." This player takes a bean-bag and 
stands before the "class" arranged in a row before 
him. Beginning at the head of the line, he tosses 
to each in turn. The one who misses must go to 
the foot of the class. At the first failure of "teacher" 
to catch properly, the child at the head of the class 
becomes "teacher" and "teacher" goes to the foot 
of the class. 

Another bean-bag game is a toss game. Find a 
large cardboard box, deep, with cover. In the cover, 
cut a hole large enough to admit the bean-bag when 
thrown from a distance. Don't make too large a 
hole. The players stand at a given distance and play 
in turn. Make the score what you like. 

Lemonade and cake may be served at your lawn 
party and you may have it after the games have been 
played. 

Those katydids, they do It all the time — 
They never seem to think it's impolite 
To contradict the way they always do: 
I hear them still disputing every night! 

But little girls and boys, they know quite well 
That it is rude to contradict that way 
And when they hear the noisy katydids, 
They'll know just how it sounds, even in play! 
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I do not care a single little rap 

What Katy did or what she didn't do — 

I wish those noisy katydids 

Would learn to be polite — Oh, be still ! Shoo ! 



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THE LAWN PARTY BAZAAR 

Material Required to Make a Lawn Party Ba- 
zaar: A big wooden packing-box for every booth's 
foundation, some crepe paper in rolls to cover the 
boxes and decorate each in an individual way, enough 
contributions of fancy articles to sell at the different 
booths. 

Tools Needed to Make a Lawn Party Bazaar: 

Nails, hammer, scissors, paste to use in fixing up the 
different booths. 

Perhaps you and your friends would like to make 
a fair or lawn party fete to raise money for some 
worthy object. You may make tickets and sell these. 
With the proceeds of ticket money, you can buy ma- 
terials to use in making things to sell. You will have 
to plan well what you want to do and give time to 
make things. You will need some money on hand 
to start out with. Perhaps you and your friends will 
club together. The ticket money will help later on. 

The articles for the fair may be prepared long in 
advance or may be solicited from those who are 
willing to help. I dare say there are many little fancy 
things that you have been taught to make. Useful 
things sell best: aprons, iron-holders, bags for sew- 

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ing, needlecases, pincushions, and other similar ar- 
ticles are best. You might have a booth for these 
as well as one for fancy articles and another for 
candies. Plan what you intend to do and work with 
that end in view. Try to make each booth attractive 
and suggestive of what it is to sell. The crepe paper 
will help. Tack this around the packing-boxes. Then 
cut paper to cover the top of the box and let this 
hang over the front and sides. Pucker the edge of 
the paper to make it ruffle. Be careful in doing this 
not to tear the paper. 

If older persons are helping you with your fair, 
they may suggest elaborate decorations for the booths, 
but if you are doing the work alone, it is wiser to 
keep to simple table form. Each booth may be made 
individual. You can make each a different color 
and make a ^'sign" for each. 

Your lawn party bazaar will need to be adver- 
tised. Posters are the best way of advertising it and 
are least expensive because you can make them your- 
self. You will need a sheet of cardboard for each 
poster and some pretty fancy wallpaper from which 
to cut figures to decorate it. There are beautiful 
flower designs in wallpapers. Cut these out in a 
decorative way to make a design. When they are 
cut out, try the design by laying it on the cardboard. 
There should be plenty of room for the lettering. 
Three things should be on your poster: Place, Time, 
Cost of Admission. 

If you do not know how to letter well, cut the let- 

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ters from dark paper. It will be easier than it 
sounds to do this. All you will need to do is to cut 
oblong slips of dark paper — wallpaper, if you like. 
Make these about an inch wide and two inches high. 
To make an A fold your paper through its center 
vertically. Cut as if you were cutting to make a tri- 
angle. Then unfold the crease and cut out the por- 
tions you must cut to make the letter A. The letter 
B is folded through its center and the fold is cut 
rounding. Then the inner part is cut out of rounded 
center part, the letter is folded out straight and you 
have your B, C is folded like B but is cut curved. D 
is cut in a curve and cut out at the center like B 
only more completely. E is folded in two parts 
horizontally and you will easily see how to cut it. 
F is £ with part cut off. You will easily see how 
to cut letters when you have tried these. As many 
as three or four may be cut at a time. Just write 
out your poster announcement as briefly and in as 
simple language as possible. Count the letters need- 
ed : so many of A and so many of or £ or F or B, 
Make a lead-pencil list. Cut the number of letters 
needed. 

In order to place the letters right, draw a light 
pencil line on the cardboard and arrange the letters 
in rough first. When you have got the spacing prop- 
erly arranged paste each letter into place carefully. 
This is quick work and gives the finished appearance 
of real printed press work. Of course, if you have 
a rubber stamp alphabet, this will do to use in print- 

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Posters Made of Wallpaper for Bazaar Advertising. 




A Wee Japanese Garden Made at a Garden Contest. 



THE LAWN PARTY BAZAAR 

ing the poster, but you must have large stamps so 
that the wording will show up large. The poster 
is to be hung where it will advertise your bazaar 
or garden party. It should be hung under shelter, as 
rain will spoil the work that is pasted upon it if the 
poster is nailed up outdoors. 

For tickets, you may use cards cut from colored 
or white cardboard. Make each admission ticket 
alike. Don't charge much for admission. 

I made a little garden, 
I dug It with my spade, 
I raked it with my little rake 
An' then, three holes I made: 

I made 'em with my finger — so, 

An' put things into 'em to grow. 

In one I put a penny, 

In one I put a bean, 

And in another one I put 

A button that was green — 

I'm waiting now quite patiently 
To see what each will grow to be! 

Maybe I'll have a party 
When everything grows tall 
To celebrate the penny crop 
That I expect by fall — 

And I will have Ice-cream an' cake 

And lemonade that I can make. 



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THE JAPANESE FUN PARTY 

Material Required to Make a Japanese Fun 
Party: Some moss, pebbles, twigs of fir or other 
small shrubs and some builder's cement. Some little 
figures that come in Japanese Garden sets are needed 
also. 

Tools Needed to Make a Japanese Fun: A glass 
in which to mix cement and an old jelly jar. 

Mud pies are fun — but I'll tell you what's MORE 
fun! That's a Japanese Garden contest! You can't 
wear anything to it except a big apron tied over an 
old dress, and if you can play outdoors, so much the 
better. Put some tables out on the lawn. On them 
place woodland moss, earth, pretty pebbles and some 
builder's cement in a dish. This should be mixed to 
stand stiff. You may mix it with a little water at a 
time and put it in some old jelly glass. 

Each child must have a shallow flower-pot drainer 
dish to work in — or better still a shallow oblong 
baking-pan. 

Each may choose what he likes from the tables 
but only one thing at a time may be taken. No fair 
hoarding or acting piggie-wiggie! 

First, everybody will need to build a wall across 

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his dish. Plan this. You are all going to make your- 
selves charming little Japanese gardens. These usual- 
ly come with a little lake arranged in the center. 
The wall is built at two sides of the dish and filled 
in when dry with earth. Moss is cut and fitted down 
over the earth. Then small trees that are wee two- 
and three-inch high clippings of fir or box may be 
pressed down into the earth to stand upright. They 
need no roots. The moisture of the earth and moss 
will keep them fresh. 

When you have builded a wall about two inches 
high, made of pebbles cemented one on top of the 
other, let it dry for a while. The wall should come 
about an inch or two from one side of the dish at 
at each end. 

After the earth is filled in, moss and trees added, 
each child may choose four little Japanese objects 
that come for these gardens. There will be houses, 
bridges, boats, deer, storks, gateways, and many other 
cunning wee toys. These, you place as you like in 
the moss. When the wall of pebbles is dry, fill your 
dish-bottom with a sprinkling of gravel run over 
some thinly dissolved cement. It should be allowed 
to dry. In a day, water may be placed in this tiny 
lake and the garden will keep for a long time. 

The work of making these garden-dishes is great 
and absorbing fun. Allow a whole afternoon for it. 
Give a pretty Japanese prize to the one who makes 
the best garden. 

It will be necessary to "wash up" after this beau- 

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tiful mud-pie party fun. Then, if you have kimonos 
to dress in, there may be a fancy dress parade of lit- 
tle Japs. And, maybe, you may have lemonade and 
crackers in real Japanese fashion — the lemonade will 
be ^^pretend tea," served in a teapot. (That's not 
Japanese but it is play!) 

In the Land of Cherry Blossom, 

Where they live on rice and tea, 
Is the quaint one-storied building 

Of the little Japanee: 

Bamboo walls and colored roof tiles, 
While they sit at home, you know, 

They can throw the side walls open 
And be out of doors, just so! 

Little children of this country 

Learn to be polite and kind, 
Obey parents, learn their lessons — 

Such, in homes like this you'll find. 



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THE ALICE IN WONDERLAND LAWN 

PARTY 

Materials Required to Make an Alice in Wonder- 
land Party: These are home-made costumes and 
things that one would sell at a bazaar. 

An Alice in Wonderland lawn party is not at all 
difficult to arrange. The essentials are a large at- 
tractive garden in which to hold the party, and a 
circle of friends to take part in it. 

The characters to be represented are Alice, the 
White Rabbit, the Duchess, the Mad Hatter, Hump- 
ty-Dumpty, Tweedledee and Tweedledum, and any 
others you please. If you follow the pictures in the 
book of Alice in Wonderland, you will have no 
trouble in arranging costumes that are appropriate. 
Cheese-cloth and tissue crepe paper may be made into 
dresses. Animal masks are to be secured at any big 
toy shop or department store toy counter. 

You must have tickets to sell for admittance. These 
are to be taken by the Frog Footman at the entrance. 
There should be a lemonade stand arranged as much 
as possible to look like Alice's magic table with the 
bottles labled "Eat me" and "Drink me." Alice may 
be the saleswoman to pour the bottled lemonade. 

The White Rabbit must sell fancy articles and 
wee Japanese fans. 

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Tweedledee and Tweedledum may sell candy, and 
Humpty-Dumpty may have charge of the grab-bag. 
If there is a convenient ^'wall'^ for him to sit on, so 
much the better! 

Serve tea under the trees and have the Mad Hat- 
ter, the Dormouse, and other Alice in Wonderland' 
characters there to help. 

If you can make a big cardboard cat's head to put 
up in a tree, it might make a good game. Have "five 
shots at the Cheshire cat" for five cents and give a 
prize if the cat is hit. 

The Duchess may tell fortunes. These should be 
most impossible and funny. 

Other members of your circle may be general help- 
ers where they are needed. Each may represent some 
playing-card. To make this, take two large white 
sheets of heavy cardboard and paste upon one some 
ace, two-spot, or other card number in heart or dia- 
mond or playing-card figure. The other piece of 
cardboard may represent the back of the card and 
be covered with cloth pasted on flat. The two pieces 
of cardboard are fastened on and worn as a sandwich 
man wears his boards. 

Very good posters to advertise your bazaar may be 
easily made with pen and India ink to represent the 
Duchess' invitation to her party. 

Will you come to meet the Rabbit 

In a Wonderland of Play? 
It will be in my garden 

Upon some sunny day. 
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Real Alice who in Wonderland 

Met Tweedledee is there 
And you may find the Dormouse 

A-sleeping in a chair. 

You'd better bring some money 
And come to join our fun — 

And bring a lot of other folks 
Because we want each one I 



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FAIRY FUN 

Materials Required to Make Fairy Fun: Some 
dark string and some large white handkerchiefs or 
dolls that have sawdust bodies and china arms and 
legs. These are usually known as ''five-cent dolls" 
and are especially limp. 

Probably you don't believe in fairies — though I 
hope you do! Fairies are so interesting that one rath- 
er likes to pretend they are true, don't you think so? 
It's what makes Hallowe'en so jolly — the magic! 

Maybe you would like to see a fairy and a fairy 
ring. Wouldn't it be fun! But I hardly think you 
will find the fairies dancing unless you make some 
Fairy Fun yourself. I will tell you How. You will 
need at least three or four large white handkerchiefs 
and some dark cord or heavy thread such as mother 
uses for sewing on shoe buttons. 

The fairy play may be made either indoors or out- 
doors. If you make it outdoors any time of day will 
answer appropriately. You will need to make the 
fun near some tree that has a low limb. If you make 
the play indoors, do it at dusk or in the early eve- 
ning. As a Hallowe'en play, it is a surprise and a 
pretty one to make for the people at home. 

If you want to make a fairy fun play at home some- 

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time at Hallowe'en, keep it a secret shared only with 
one or two chums. Mother might be one of these 
for she could help ever so much and she would never 
tell — no, never! 

You must commence by making the fairies! Did 
you ever! Well, it isn't so magic as it sounds. Take 
a big plain white handkerchief and ask some person 
to hold two corners of it for you. Take the other 
two corners one in each hand and roll toward the 
center of the handkerchief making a tight roll till 
you reach the center. Then exchange corners and roll 
these tight too till they reach the center. 

Keep both rolls tight. Pass two-pointed ends un- 
der the other two-pointed ends. Then tie the two 
ends so used around the upper part of what is left 
in folding down the first ends. This will make a 
doll's body with a head, arms and legs. 

Make as many of these handkerchief dolls as you 
like: two for each child who is going to be in the 
play is enough. 

Fasten a long, long length of dark string around 
each doll's head at the neck. Pass the string over 
the back of a chair or over an electric light bracket 
so that the doll's feet touch the ground. Hide behind 
a curtain or a screen or even behind the chair and 
keep the string tight. Then pull it gently up and 
down and the ''fairy" will appear to be dancing. At 
dusk or in the evening, no cord will show, and when 
you see the v/hite dolls in the dimness, they will seem 
really true fairies, 

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If you take a comb and fold tissue paper over its 
teeth and blow against these in humming a tune, it 
will make a hidden fairy orchestra to play for the 
fairies. 

Three or four little friends may help you make 
this fairy fun some day. If you have invited the 
family to come at a stated time, they will walk into 
the darkened room, hear the music, stop, look and 
stand there gleefully quiet to watch the really true 
fairies. 

At Hallowe'en you might prepare this play in 
the house and write a wee invitation to each member 
of your household as if it were sent from the fairies 
themselves: 

Dear Friend: 

We, the Happy Fairies, are bringing 
you happiness on this Hallowe'en. We 
will leave it in your house and we will 
dance for you if you will come into the 
library at eight o'clock sharp ! Don't talk 
to us but watch till the music stops and 
then tip-toe out of the room and shut the 
door tight. We would appreciate it if you 
will bring each fairy a cake or cracker and 
leave it on the table. There are four of us. 
Your friends, 

The Fairies. 

If you make the play outdoors, the string will hard- 
ly be noticed where there is foliage. It should be 
strong enough not to break in pulling. 

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All wrapped In my gray woolly wrapper, just after I put out my 

light, 
Before I hop into my little white bed, I stand by my window at 

night. 

The garden looks strange in the darkness, and there where the 

two fir-trees stand, 
A tall cavalier and a slim lady tree dance merrily hand in 

hand. 

The lady tree laughs, I can see her; she waves a gay greeting to 

me, 
And the gentleman tree bends low a deep bow as he swings his 

plume to his knee. 

Perhaps they are just our green fir-trees as they rock in the wind 

and sway, 
Yet the gentleman's plume and her long velvet cloak can never be 

seen by day. 

It may be they're really enchanted, those two solemn evergreens 

here, 
By night, like the fairies, they dance hand in hand as a lady and 

cavalier. 



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THE BAZAAR ON WHEELS 

Material Required to Make a Bazaar on Wheels : 

Some toy cart or garden pushcart and plenty of little 
articles that you and your friends can make to sell. 

You may easily raise money for some worthy ob- 
ject without taking the trouble to arrange booths for 
a fair. You may secure from your friends some toy 
express carts to add to your own and make a bazaar 
that will travel. 

The carts may be in charge of their owners, who 
may trim them up with colored paper or bunting and 
flags. In each cart, you may place a different assort- 
ment of things for sale: in one household things, in 
another sandwiches or home-made candy, in another 
lemonade and glasses. There should be some attend- 
ant to walk beside the cart and sell the goods. The 
little carts make a procession. The last cart may 
be a ^'grab." Packages of small things should be done 
up in paper napkins and '^for five cents" any person 
may take a chance to find out what is in the one 
he wishes to select. 

You may have a cart with "fortunes," if you like: 
just write a varied assortment of fortunes upon sheets 
of pad paper. Do these up separately in paper nap- 

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kins and put enough to fill a small toy express cart 
in some basket. Then place the basket in the cart. 
Charge five cents for a fortune and let the one who 
pays draw his fortune from the basket himself. 

If you like to have a bazaar party, you may have 
one wagon for cake, one wagon of lemonade and one 
of grabs. The wagon procession will carry its fun 
with it wherever it goes. 

On stormy indoor days when you cannot go out, 
you may like to prepare for a bazaar grab or make 
little articles to sell at a bazaar on wheels. Any lit- 
tle things that you can make may be used this way. 
It will be fun to plan this and you can keep the things 
made till there are enough of them to sell. 

Don't you think it would be fun 
To make a procession — one by one — 
Each one doing his part, 
Each one with his toy cart? 

Don't you think it would be gay 
To make a Bazaar this kind of way: 
And go up the street 
Each cart with things to eat ? 



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A FISHING PARTY ON THE LAWN 

Material Required to Make a Fishing Party on 
the Lawn: A fish-pole made of any pole or rod you 
may have, a big shawl or blanket to make a screen for 
the pond, some string to tie it up, some brown paper 
to make into packages, some cardboard to cut for 
small fish, string to tie up packages. 

You may make a Fishing Fun Party indoors or 
outdoors any day or time you like. Perhaps your 
friends will help you and you can all play together. 

Get a big shawl, some string, wrapping paper, 
scissors, pencil, and some cardboard. See where you 
can hang your shawl so as to form a screen in some 
corner. Inside this partition is the pond. 

Arrange for a fishing-rod. Some long stick with a 
string and bent pin might answer as a fish-pole. 

Now, cut about twenty ^^fish." These are small 
fish-shaped cardboard cut-outs. Name each fish, and 
have some named porgies that have to be thrown back 
into the water. Porgies have no number written on 
them but other fish must each have a number writ- 
ten on them in black crayon or pencil. 

Do each fish up in a package. Then count out to 
see who will be in the fish-pond and be //. 

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The Fun of the Wise Turtle Game. 



A FISHING PARTY ON THE LAWN 

The other players count out to find the order of 
play. 

Nobody must speak. If you speak while fishing 
or if you tell who is fishing or in any way let your- 
self be known to it who is in the pond, you miss 
your turn! 

Cast the line. The player who is it, takes some 
package from the pond and fastens it on the hook. 
Then draw it in. If, on opening it, you find a worth- 
less porgie, you have no count. If it is a real ''fish" 
its number will be your score. Make your score 
as high as you can. Every ''even" number gives 
you another turn to fish. Every odd number admits 
of one turn only. Have as many rounds as there are 
children at the fun party. The one to make the high- 
est score wins. 

A prize for the game may be a pincushion that 
you may make from two flat pieces of cardboard cut 
like a fish and each covered with silk. These two 
sides are fastened together and overcast. Then pins 
are run between the two, upright, to suggest fins and 
tail. 

We made some cardboard fish 
And fished and fished away — 

A blanket was the "pond" 
We made-belfeve for play. 

We had a long, long pole, 

And had a lot of fun 
A-fishing cardboard fish 

Until our game was won. 
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THE FUN OF WISE TURTLE 

Material Required to Make a Wise Turtle: A 

big shawl and some string. 

If you want to add fun to a lawn party or make 
fun to entertain some friends, try the Wise Turtle. 
You may explain that you have a turtle who will 
answer questions. Then get somebody to help you 
make the turtle — but keep it a secret till the right 
time comes to call the others. 

One of you must be turtle. Kneel upon the floor 
as far down as you can and bend your head forward 
and down. Let the other child who is with you throw 
the dark shawl over you. Extend your hand flat and 
have him tie the shawl around your wrist to make 
the flat head of a turtle. He should then tuck the 
shawl all around you inward to make the shape of 
a turtle's shell. 

Now, call the other children. Tell them each to 
ask the turtle a question that may be answered by 
^'Yes" or "No." When the one who is turtle moves 
his hand from left to right, this means "No" as it 
would if you shook your head from side to side. 
If the hand is moved up and down, that means "Yes" 
as it would if you nodded your head. All the children 
will want to ask Wise Turtle a question, I think. 

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Afterwards, you may play Twenty Questions with 
Wise Turtle. Each player is entitle to one guess 
in turn and Wise Turtle is the one to choose some 
object in the room or outdoors that all can see. The 
first to guess this right becomes Wise Turtle and 
you play till you are tired of the game. 

Wise Turtle will make a jolly kind of side-show 
for a bazaar or lawn party. If it is a side-show have 
cardboard tickets and make people pay five cents to 
go in and ask Wise Turtle a question. A big card- 
board picture of a turtle should be pinned up to 
attract attention to this ^^show." 

I know a turtle made with a shawl, 
But the turtle can't walk around at all — 
He'll nod his head and shake it, too, 
And I think he'll like to play with you! 



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THE SEA BEACH PARTY 

Material Required for a Sea Beach Party: A big 

wooden box filled with good things to eat, some prizes 
for a party and a big spoon or little shovel for every 
one who comes to the party. 

When the moon is full and weather promises to 
be fair, that is the time for an evening's fun on the 
beach and a hunt for a Captain Kidd's treasure chest. 

You will need a fine sandy beach, of course, and 
a warm evening. The party may start at dusk. The 
treasure is to be hidden in a big wooden box that has 
a cover and it should be hidden by somebody before 
the "party" guests arrive. 

In the big wooden box is prepared a picnic lunch. 
Everything should be there, napkins, tablecloth, olive 
bottles, sandwiches, cake and good things. The treas- 
ure chest is just a provision box full of outdoor pic- 
nicky things. Nobody knows this. Nobody should 
be told. 

Give each one, as he comes, a small tin shovel and 
tell him to hunt for Captain Kidd's Treasure in a 
wooden "chest." You may prepare a rough map, if 
you like. Make it a plan of the beach. Give a clue 
— so many rods from a gray rock — or something like 

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this. Plant several wooden decoy boxes filled with 
nothing but sand and stones. 

See who can find Captain Kidd's real treasure! 
It will be a jolly kind of hunt, Fm sure. The first to 
find the real box may claim ownership. That means 
that this one may lay out the picnic supper as he 
chooses and claim any extra treasure that is at the 
bottom of the box. (Usually, there should be some 
small trifle for every member of the party — a copper 
cent for every one, when ^'booty" is divided or ^^pi- 
rate gold" that is candy done up in bags to repre- 
sent money bags.) 

If you like, you may have this kind of beach party 
when it is daylight. If you do, be careful to cover 
up all spots where decoy boxes or where the real 
"treasure" is buried. At a daylight party, there are 
other games you may play. After the picnic is found, 
you may like to try them. 

You may make a cork bean-bag before the party 
and play games in the water with it. The bag is 
made by filling a muslin pocket with ordinary corks. 
Sew it up afterwards and the bag is made. 

With this, you may play "school" in the water. 
Make a line of the players and let it be the one to 
toss down the line till he misses. When any teacher 
misses a catch, he goes to the foot of the class. When 
any child in "school" misses a catch, he goes to the 
foot of the class. You may play this as long as you 
like. 

Another game is played by swimmers. Place two 

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children about twenty rods apart. Toss the beanbag 
between them. The one who can get it first wins and 
may toss it next time for two new contestants. 

There are games you may play upon the beach as 
well. Sandfun is one of these. It is played with 
sand-pails and sea shells. As many as four may 
play. 

Players may use one pail between them. Select 
a nice smooth spot of sandy beach about four feet 
square. Draw a square with a stick. Draw from 
corner to corner of this square and from the center 
of one side to its opposite. This will make eight 
triangles within your square. 

You will need a flat clam-shell for a counter. Count 
out for order of play. The first to start tosses the 
counter. If it falls with its inner side next the sand, 
that player takes the pail and makes a sand-cake 
which he empties upon the triangle next to him. 
If the cake does not "turn out," he must smooth off 
the triangle again. Two triangles belong to each 
player and the first to get four cakes in them will 
win the game. When the clam-shell turns with its 
outside toward the sand, in tossing, then a player has 
no turn. 

Another game may be played with a pail and twen- 
ty small pebbles for each player. Players must sit 
ten feet from the pail in a row on the sand. The 
first to throw three pebbles into the pail wins the 
game. 

At a beach party, you may also have a castle-build- 

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ing contest. Every contestant must start at the same 
time to build a sand-castle. There is chosen a judge 
who is to keep time. Ten or fifteen minutes is al- 
lowed. Then all must stop. The one whose castle is 
judged the best wins the contest. Some pretty shell 
will be a prize or a toy flag to place upon the castle. 

Upon the yellow sands one day, 

I built a splendid fort in play : 

It was so strong and seemed so tall, 

I thought that it would never fall 

Before the little waves that came 

To play with me a sea-beach game. 

I made beh'eve the waves so blue 

Were ranks of soldiers staunch and true — 

Right to my fortress on the sand, 

They marched at General Sea's command! 

But I had made my fort so well. 

Each rank before my ramparts fell! 

Then, General Sea sent on new men 

To battle 'gainst my fort again ! 

Eager, they rushed to join the fight 

With helmet plumes — the spray — all white ; 

And then, at last, the foe assailed 

With one great rush my walls were scaled 

And countless ripples mad with glee 

Ran round my feet to capture me ! 



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THE FUN OF A BOX PARTY 

Material Required to Make a Box Party: Just 
some cardboard boxes or various shapes and sizes, 
paper, pencil. 

Tools Needed to Make a Box Party: Crayons, 
scissors. 

Some day, no doubt, you will like to have a box 
party. It will be fun for many reasons to try the nov- 
elty of making toys from boxes. They are easy to 
make too! 

If you send out any invitations to your fun party, 
send each in a small cardboard box. The invitations 
should read something like this: 

Dear Wopsie: 

Please come, if you can, to have some 
fun with me on Saturday afternoon. It is 
going to be a Box Party. Please bring a 
box with something to eat inside. 
Your friend, 

TOPSY. 

Between the time of your invitations and the date 
sent, collect all manner of cardboard boxes. Place 
these on a big work table, on the day appointed for 

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the party, and have a cloth over the table that you 
can work on. There should be crayons, scissors, pen- 
cil and paper for the children to use in common. 
With the boxes, each child is going to try to make 
some toy. He must see what he will make and plan 
it without telling his plan aloud. Be careful not to 
tell! Keep it a secret! 

Each child may take from the pile of boxes one 
box — with this he must start his toy. If he needs 
another box to complete it, he may take a second. 
Two boxes are enough to use in making any toy. These 
are some of the box toys you can make : a toy wagon 
with round disks of cardboard for wheels; a dolls' 
table by cutting legs in the deep box rim at each box 
corner and inverting the box to stand upon these; 
some animal — dog or cat — may be made by turning a 
deep box over to rest on its rims. Cut the animal's 
legs and feet at the corner of each box rim. Head 
and tail are drawn on cardboard and slipped into 
slits made in opposite ends of the box at the top. 
See what you can all make. The one who makes the 
best toy should have a little box of candy. 

A good game to play at the box party is a box for- 
tune-telling game. It will make a good laugh for 
everybody. It is made with a box brownie and you 
play the game with buttons. 

A round pill box is the brownie's head. Mark a 
face on its back side that is clear of printed matter. 
The body of the brownie is a cardboard box with 
cover glued fast. This box should be about three 

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or four inches long. Cut arms and hands from some 
cardboard and make a slit with a knife in the side 
of the box body. Slip the arms into the two slits 
firmly. At the base of the box make two more slits 
that go the short way of the box. Cut pieces of card- 
board large and flat at one end and smaller at the 
other to make feet and legs. Bend the large flat 
part of these to make feet on which to stand the 
brownie. 

Now, take paper and pencil. Make a number of 
slips of white pad paper, each about two or three 
inches long. Write "Yes" on some and "No" on 
others. Write on some the name of a profession 
such as "Cook" or "Policeman" or "Artist" or some- 
thing that occurs to you. Make a series of eight or 
ten of these and put them in an envelope labeled 
Professions. Place the "Yes" and "No" papers in 
another envelope labeled Direct Answers, 

To play the Fortune Game, stand the brownie 
upon a table and place one of the Direct Answer 
papers in the box that is its head. Don't look at 
the paper you draw. Nobody must know what it is. 

Count out for order of play. The first player asks 
a question that may be answered by yes or no. Ask 
any question you like — just for fun. Then that play- 
er takes a button and tries to hit the brownie's head. 
If he succeeds in hitting the brownie's head, he may 
open the box and read the answer. If he does not 
hit it, the question must be asked again and the turn 
passes to the next. Continue play this way till all 

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papers are used. Then ask the brownie to tell you 
your future profession and take one of the papers 
from the other envelope to put in the little box. The 
play is the same. If you obtain two or more pro- 
fessions, it means that there will be more than one. 
The same question may not be answered more than 
once. 

Another fun game will be to put some beans in 
some cardboard boxes. Don't put many beans in — 
just a few. Use three boxes and number each one 
like this, i, 2, 3. Give each player a paper and pen- 
cil. He must then shake each box and not open it 
at all. By the noise, he must guess how many beans 
are in box i or box 2 or box 3. Each must write his 
guess upon his paper, numbering it. Then the boxes 
are opened and the number of beans counted. The 
one who comes closest to the right number gains one 
point for each correct guess. Change the number 
of beans each time and make new guesses. The one 
to score five guesses first wins. 

I never could believe — could you — 
The things a cardboard box can do? — 
For, would you think a box could tell 
A funny fortune really well ? 

And would you think a box could be 
A brownie like the one you see? 
Maybe you'd like to have the fun 
Of making you another one. 

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THE SICK-A-BED-FUN PARTY 

Material Required to Make a Sick-a-bed Party: 

Fancy post-cards, letter paper and envelopes, an 
everyday copy-book to make into a surprise book, 
some empty jelly glasses and any wee toys that you 
have. Stickers that come in Dennison boxes are used 
as seals. - 

Tools Needed to Make a Sick-a-bed Party: Just 
the tools that fairies have, nimble fingers, happy 
thoughts and — play. 

Maybe you know what it is to be sick — but I hope 
not really SICK! By that I mean that you feel you 
would like to get right up and run around the room, 
if only the nurse would let you. It's dreadfully dull 
to have to stay quiet all the time and that, often, 
when you can hear other children playing and having 
a good time. No parties for you, then! No, sir! 
All you can do is to count the flies that are on the 
ceiling, if you're lucky enough to have a fly in your 
room. Ten chances out of a hundred that the nurse 
swatted it! If she hadn't, you could have watched 
that fly for a long time and speculated as to what it 
would do next. It would have killed time between 
the clock chimes and given something to do to break 

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the monotony. Oh, it isn't interesting — no, sir! 

Well, haven't you some little friend that would 
like to be amused? And, maybe, he'd like a party? 
He can't come to any fun party of yours! Suppose 
you make a party for him ! I think it would be splen- 
did, don't you! It couldn't be a party with pink ice- 
cream and cake, of course. It could be something 
else though — something that was fun! 

You might make a post-card party for your friend : 
that's fun and it's not hard to do. Just ask every 
friend of his to send him a post-card that will reach 
him on a day that is chosen. Then the postman will 
bring ever so many pretty cards with pictures on them 
and he can have them all to enjoy and to re-read. 
It will be almost like a real party except that the 
cards will go to play with your chum instead of you 
and your friends. 

You may also make a real surprise party for your 
chum. It will not come with a basket but it will 
come in a book! How? Well, listen: you'll need 
a blank book with a cardboard cover you can cut. 
This will be made into a three-cornered book that 
has its leaves folded. Inside each fold some friend 
will put a little letter or a surprise. Then a sticker 
is placed to seal the folded leaf and on the outside 
is written when to open. It should be like this 

You can open this when you want to laugh. 

You may open this at eleven fifteen, Tues- 
day the thirteenth. 

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Open this after you^ve taken a dose of 
your had medicine that you don't like. 

Open this on Valentine^ s Day, 

Open this and think of the one whose name 
is signed here when it is time to say good- 
night and go to sleep. 

This is the way you will have to make your book: 
Cut each cover toward a point right at the forward 
center part of your book. Then fold the first sheet 
over, inward with point down to fit close to the bind- 
ing of the copy-book. Fold the lower part of the 
leaf upward to fit over this. It will make a pocket. 
Fold all the leaves of the book in this way. Then 
give the book to one friend after the other and ask 
each to fill a pocket and seal it and write on the out- 
side when it may be opened. 

Some pockets contain wee letters. Others may 
contain a picture, some may have a lucky penny en- 
closed. This may be put into a bank or kept as a 
nest tgg in a box. Some pockets may contain a toy 
flag, a flat sachet to smell, a wee pocket glass to flash 
about the room as entertainment when the sun lights 
on the bed, some wool and a kindergarten picture to 
sew with it, paper doll cut-outs. You might put 
anything that is not too lumpy in the surprise book 
but don't put things to eat, remember! If your chum 
is sick, you'll have to remember that! 

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Anything will do to seal the pockets. You may 
paste a scrap-picture to seal the leaves or you may 
put a fancy holiday sticker on as a seal. 

The book may be tied from front corner point 
to front corner point opposite. Use a tape or ribbon, 
making holes that are not very large to run this 
through at each point. 

You may send some surprise jelly with this book 
to your chum — it isn't jelly that you eat though. It's 
just pure fun! He'll think it even better than really 
true jelly tool 

Find some empty jelly glasses and some red, yel- 
low, green, and orange-colored tissue papers. Hunt 
for some white pad paper and some paste too. Be- 
side these, you'll need some fruit-jar labels — or you 
can cut these from everyday white paper. 

Begin by washing and cleaning each jar so no 
dust is in it. Dry each jar well. Then find some 
wee toy that will fit into it. Do this toy up in a 
small tissue paper package. Next, cut a round of 
colored tissue for the bottom of the jar inside. Line 
the sides of the jar with the same color of tissue 
paper and put the little surprise gift inside. 

Cut a circle of white paper a half inch larger 
than the top of your jar and put it over the top. Snip 
the scissors and seal the jar with the paper as Mother 
seals jelly jars. You will need to paste the rim of 
the paper where it is snipped. 

Next, write the name of some jelly or jam on the 
label or on a slip of white paper cut like a label 

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and paste this in place on the jar. Make a trayful 
of these jars, each with some toy or surprise inside. 
It will be jolly for your little friend to have these 
jars by his bedside and to know that according to 
your letter sent with the jelly jars, he may look for- 
ward to opening one a day while he is sick. 

The toys that will fit into these jars may be varied : 
a tin soldier — with a letter to go with him; a toy bal- 
loon that is not yet blown up ; some wee china cat or 
dog; a Noah's ark animal, a little ball with an elastic 
on it to play with in bed; a string of cut-outs folded; 
a pretty seaside shell; and "penny toys" of all kinds. 

Maybe, sometime, if you're ill you will have a 
friend who will make a surprise party for you and 
you'll enjoy it too, even though you are sick. You 
won't feel so lonesome with the party of post-cards 
and surprises because you'll know that your friends 
are thinking of you all the time even though they 
can't come to the house to play. 

At night time when my praj^rs are said, 
My Mama tucks me into bed, 
An' kisses me an' goes away 
Downstairs where grown-up people stay. 

Sometimes, I feel quite lonely here, 

It seems so strange an' dark an' queer — 

But I look out into the night 

To where my little star shines bright. 

'Most always, we play hide-an' seek : 
I hide my head an' then I peek 

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Behind my pillow just to see 
If — peek-a-boo, — it catches me! 

It hides behind the clouds and plays 
An' then again it stays an' stays 
Until I catch it peeping 'round 
Some corner of its pillow mound. 

Sometimes, in the big dark of sky, 
It falls asleep the same as I — 
And in the Dream Land 'way off far, 
I play still with my little star. 



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A LAWN PARTY CONTEST 

Material Required to Make a Lawn Party Con- 
test: Oak leaves and colored pictures or assorted 
stickers. 

Tools Needed to Make a Lawn Party Contest: 

Blotting paper and some hair-brushes. 

If you want to have an outdoor garden contest 
just for fun at your lawn party, arrange a big table 
outdoors under the trees and gather a branch of oak 
leaves. Take these leaves from the branch a day 
before you intend to use them for the contest and 
put them into a bowl of water. Let them stay there 
till it is time to use them. Then dry them with a 
cloth and put them on your table. 

Each child must have a hair-brush to use in the 
contest. The work does not injure brushes. Ask if 
you may use them for play and ten chances to one — 
if they are not ivory or silver-handled — you will get 
Mother's permission. 

The object of the contest is to see who can make 
the loveliest oak-leaf bookmarker. These bookmark- 
ers are easy to make: lay a leaf upon a piece of blot- 
ting paper and pat it with the bristles of a brush. 
By doing this, vou remove the green pulp of the leaf 

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Oak-Leaf Bookmarkers Made at a Garden Contest. 



A LAWN PARTY CONTEST 

and it comes off on the blotting paper. It leaves 
only the veining of the leaf in beautiful lacework. 
You will need to turn the leaf from time to time and, 
perhaps wash it off in water. Then start again. See 
who can obtain the best bookmarker. Paste a pretty 
sticker or picture on your leaf when it is dry. Some 
leaves are large enough to permit you to use a group 
of stickers. 

You may also have a doll-making contest with 
flowers at your party. The flower dolls are to be 
made of hollyhocks. If you pick enough flowers 
and knobby buds, everybody can make a flower doll. 
One bud and one full-blown flower make a doll. 
Press a wee twig into a bud and let the twig go down 
into the base of a full-blown flower. See! There is 
the head of the lady doll and its pretty dress. Another 
twig whittled small is to be run through the upper 
part of the lady's body to make arms. A parasol 
will be a half-blown flower with a long straight twig 
pressed through it to make a handle. 

I suppose you already know of daisy plays! By 
cutting the leaves to make a half circle rim around 
the yellow center part and leaving two long straight 
leaves at the under side of the flower, you will make 
a granny in a white cap. The eyes, nose and mouth 
may be marked by pressing a small stick or pencil 
point on the center of the flower to outline them. 

Leaf crowns and chains may be made by joining 
leaves together by overlapping one with another. 
Fasten the two together with a small twig that is very 

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light. You may make these crowns and chains as dec- 
orations for those who win garden party games. 

If I should dig an' dig all day, 
Right in the garden where I play, 
An' dig a great deep hole, I know 
I could climb down to China so ! 

I'd like to try it, yet somehow, 
I'm most afraid to tr>^ it now : 
The sun is shining here so bright, 
I know, down there, it must be night. 

I do not like the dark at all — 
It makes me 'fraid 'cause I'm so small — 
Maybe, when I am brave an' big 
That then I'll dare to dig an' dig! 



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THE FORTUNE-TELLING FUN 

Material Required to Make a Fortune Game: A 
sheet of cardboard and some pictures cut from maga- 
zines. 

Tools Needed to Make a Fortune Game: Scis- 
sors and paste, crayons. 

Some day it might be fun to dress up like a gypsy 
band and tell your friends' fortunes. A gypsy fun 
party is the very thing for a good time! You will 
need to make a Fortune Game first. It is made by 
cutting cardboard cards and illustrating them with, 
magazine advertisements. 

Cut twenty cards, each card about two inches wide 
and three inches high. 

Find some magazines and look through their ad- 
vertisements to see what you can find. These are the 
cards you will need to illustrate with some picture. 
The picture is pasted on the card and colored when 
dry with crayons. 

Good Fortune: a ship. 

A Present: a basket. 

A Dark Lady: a lady with black cray- 

oned hair. 

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A Dark Man: a man with black cray- 

oned hair. 

A Light Man: a man with yellow cray- 

oned hair. 

A Light Woman: a woman with yellow 

hair. 

A Journey: a picture of a train. 

A Letter: a picture of a messenger 

boy. 

Riches: an automobile. 

Poverty: a picture of a tramp. 

A Wedding: a pair of shoes. 

The other cards will represent the professions by 
some special symbol. The advertisement toothbrush 
will stand for a dentist's profession; the picture of a 
Red Cross nurse will represent a nurse's calling; a 
touring car with people in it will mean a chauffeur; 
a doctor will be a man with a bag; a writer will be 
a person with a book. In this way you may add 
all cards you need to fill the pack. 

Take the cards with the professions out when you 
start to tell fortunes. Ask the player whose fortune 
you are telling to cut the cards and wish a wish. 
Put the pack together and deal six down on the table. 
If the sixth card is the card of Good Fortune, his 
wish will come true. (All this is just play, you know, 
for nobody believes that cards can tell a real thing 
that is going to happen.) 

If you shuffle all the cards again and count out six 
each time, you will tell a fortune. Always go by the 

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sixth, card you turn over. Stop there. Repeat six 
times. Then do the same with the cards that illus- 
trate the professions. Count these out only once and 
end with the ^ii:tli year d. This will close the fortune 
telling for one person — you can say that seven turns 
are ''magic" ^d one more would ''break the magic 
number." 

If you like, you may add to your fortune cards 
others not written in this set. Number each card, if 
you have made a big set. Then keep a list of your 
cards, numbered. By referring to this, if you forget, 
you will still be able to tell any fortune. Best memo- 
rize your cards by telling play fortunes several times 
for practice before you tell one as a game for others 
to share. 

It is fun to dress up as gypsy when you tell for- 
tunes. Almost any old clothes will make a gypsy 
•dress if you pin a bright piece of cloth or a shawl 
Sver your shoulders. You may like to play this at 
^^a lawn party. 

Sometimes, upon a summer's day 

We make-believe a gypsy play: 

With shawls and scarves in much demand, 

We dress up as a gypsy band. 

We play at telling fortunes too — 
It's just a make-beh'eve, not true, 
- ! But it is fun to make pretend 

And tell the "fortune" of a friend. 



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THE DRAWING PARTY 

i3q or. 

Material Required to Make Fun Ibr a Drawing 
Party: Some large sheets of brown manilla wrapping 
paper, some black crayon and colofed crayons, four 
thumb-tacks. 

Tools Needed to Make Fun for a Drawing Party: 

Pencils and paper for each player. 

Maybe you know how to draw — maybe you don't. 
It won't matter at all in making an art party. Thje 
drawings are all funny and so nobody need be afraid 
to try the fun. Some day I'd advise you to try mak- 
ing a drawing party. This is how to prepare for i|^^: 
you must find some big clean sheets of manilla wraj^- 
ping paper first of all. Arrange these in a folded 
book form and pin them in this way to a wooden 
bread-board. Stand the board upon a table, upright. 

Prepare a list of the names of animals: camel, 
bear, mouse, elephant, tiger, leopard, cat, lizard, buf- 
falo, lion, and so on — ^write twice as many names of 
animals as there are children who are to play the 
game. Keep this list. Number it. 

Have some black charcoal or some black and col- 
ored crayons to use in the play. 

When your friends come, give each a pencil and 

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sheet of paper. Seat them all in a half-circle around 
the table where the drawing-board has been placed. 
Put a clock on the table with the crayons. 

Call one player from the circle at a time. Whisper 
to him the name of the first animal on the list. Be 
careful that nobody shall overhear you. Give the 
player two minutes to draw a picture of the animal. 
Make him stop promptly at the end of the time. He 
must then return to his seat. 

He may not tell the name of the animal he was 
trying to draw: all players in the drawing game have 
to write on their papers the guess they make as to 
what animal it is. A quick sketch of a cat may look 
much like a tiger and even animals like cat or dog 
may be mixed in hurried drawing. It will be quick 
work to draw even the picture of a mouse in a hurry. 
As soon as all have written guesses, tear off sheet 
number one and number the second blank of the 
manilla paper on the board. 

Go on this way through the whole list of animal 
names you have made, giving each player two turns 
to draw, numbering each sheet of picture. Each new 
time an animal is drawn, the players guess what it 
is, number their guess to correspond with the picture 
and begin anew. 

When all have played their two turns, take the big 
drawings and place them in order of making upon 
the board: number one, possibly ^'Cat," may look 
more like ''Tiger" but write the correct name upon 
the drawing. 

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Players exchange papers and correct the lists of 
guesses. The one to have guessed most of the draw- 
ings right should have some reward of merit. It may 
be a toy animal or a box of animal crackers. 

After this, it may be fun to play Bird, Beast, Fish. 
Maybe you already know how to play this game. It 
calls for quick wits. 

Place all players in a circle and count out to see 
who shall be ''It." 

The one who is ''It" goes to the center of the circle 
with a ruler or pencil in his hand. He turns around 
the circle facing one way and then another way. 
Suddenly he must point his stick at some unsuspect- 
ing person and say either "Bird," "Beast," or "Fish." 
If he says, "Bird!" and points to one child quickly, 
that child must name a certain kind of bird — say, 
robin, before the one who is "It" can count five. 
If he fails, then he becomes "It." Play continues, 
each who fails becomes "It." No name of bird, beast, 
or fish may be used a second time. In this way, the 
game is a test of memory. 

Another animal game you may play is to see who 
can write the longest list of animals. Read the lists 
and cross off names that are common to the lists. 
The winner is he who has the names of animals that 
are on no other list. Second winner is he who has 
thought of most animals. 

I drew a picture of a mouse, 
I did it in a minute — 

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This is a Picture of a Mouse Drawn in Just a Alinute. 




Here are Some Funnybeasts, the Donkeybray, Puppywag. and Yowlcat. 



THE DRAWING PARTY 

I think that it was chiefly tail 
With great big whiskers in it ! 

Some guessed it was a puppy dog, 
Some guessed it was a cat — 

(Of course, I drew it for a mouse. 
Or, maybe, some big rat.) 



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THE FUNNYBEAST FUN 

Material Required to Make a Funnybeast Fun 
Party: Some dark cardboard and a box of round 
wire paper-shanks. 

Tools Needed to Make Funnybeast Fun: Scis- 
sors. 

Some fine day when you want to have indoor fun, 
try making funnybeasts. I hardly think you ever 
met a funnybeast. If you did, I think you probably 
laughed, becau^^ a funnybeast is — well, it's funny! 

You must arrange a big work-table if you want to 
have some funnybeast fun with some friends. Put 
newspapers over it and place at each chair a piece 
of cardboard — dark cardboard cut into a sheet about 
twelve inches square. 

In the center of the table, have a box of round wire 
paper-shanks. These you can buy from a stationer. 
The box will cost ten cents. 

Seat each child at the table. Tell him that he 
must make a funnybeast. Try to make one yourself 
first, in order to explain the play to the other chil- 
dren clearly. A funnybeast is made of oblongs, 
squares, ovals, rounds, and other strange geometrical 
figures fastened together with round wire paper- 

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shanks to make something that suggests some animal. 
Each child may cut his cardboard any way he chooses 
to make his animal. First a body must be cut, then 
head, legs, tail. No one who is making an animal 
may tell what the animal is to be made like. From 
the one square of cardboard, two funnybeasts are to 
be made. But don't tell their names. One may look 
like a cat but you cannot call it cat. You may only 
suggest cat in the name you give your funnybeast. 
Call it yowlcat or pussy-meow or mew-mew. 

As soon as all funnybeasts are made, each player 
of the game must write upon each of his animals its 
name. He then adds his own name also and places 
his work in a line upon a stand or table that forms 
an ^'Animal Exhibition." Then votes are cast. See 
which funnybeast is voted the funniest. 

The way to arrange for voting is to have a box and 
some slips of paper and a pencil. As all the animals 
are counted by their number ^'on the exhibition line," 
write the number of the animal you vote for on a 
slip of paper. Fold the paper and place it in the 
box. The funnybeast who has most votes will re- 
ceive all the other funnybeasts made at the party 
and may carry them home to make a funnybeast zoo. 

I wonder if you ever met 

A humpydoodledee? 
I really quite advise you not — 

It is so bad to see: 
The humpydoodle sulks and frets, 

It's grumpy and It's cross — 

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For being really horrid 

It is never at a loss! 
Indeed, it is an animal from 

Which I'd have you flee, 
This humpy, grumpy animal. 

The humpydoodledee I 



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SOAP-BUBBLE FUN 

Material Required to Make Soap-bubble Fun: 
A big box, some soap-bubbles, pipes of clay, soap, 
tissue papers. 

A Soap-Bubble Party might be fun to make some 
day. Suppose you try it. You will need to buy some 
penny pipes of clay. You will also need some soft 
soap, tissue papers and a big cardboard box. 

Ask your little friends to come prepared to blow 
bubbles. That means, of course, that nobody will 
wear best dresses. Nobody knows what might hap- 
pen if the water with the soap suds fell on a best 
dress, you know! 

Everybody must have a bubble pipe as soon as the 
fun begins. Right away, everybody starts to blow 
Bubbles. First, everybody tries to see who can make 
the biggest bubble. You take turns for this contest 
and vote on the one you think most successful. Next 
you try to see who can blow the smallest bubble and 
take a vote upon that too. 

By this time you are quite an adept in blowing bub- 
bles and everybody can try a bubble game. To make 
this game, you will need to have a long table covered 
with a woolen cloth. At one end of this table, place 

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the half of a big cardboard box that is stood upon 
one long rim. Cut off this rim and cut out enough 
of the cardboard to make the rest of the box into an 
arch. 

Count out for order of play. When it comes a 
player's turn, he must blow a bubble and let it drop 
to the tablecloth carefully, without breaking. Then 
he may try to blow this bubble through the arch that 
should be at least five feet distant. The first player 
to do this scores five and the score is kept with paper 
and pencil. The next to do this scores the same num- 
ber. The player who can make fifteen first wins the 
game. 

A prize for your soap-bubble game will be a pipe 
dressed up to represent Mrs. Piper. She is made 
with a clay pipe. On the under part of the pipe- 
bowl you draw a face with ink. On some pipes you 
will find that there is a small clay projection that 
will make Mrs. Piper a real nose. 

Make a cardboard cone and paste its sides to stand. 
Drop the long pipe stem into the top opening of this 
cone. Then make a tissue paper dress for the cone 
and cut cardboard arms to fit the doll. Cover each 
with tissue paper like the dress and paste in place. I 
think your friends will laugh when they see Mrs. 
Piper and they'll agree that her fun party was, in- 
deed, ever so much FUN. 

Blow a bubble round and large; 
Launch it with great care; 

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Picture-Illustrating with Scissors, Paste, and Paper. 



SOAP-BUBBLE FUN 

Blow it through the cardboard arch 

On the table there — 
If your bubble bursts, oh dear! 

Isn't that too bad! 
But you'll have another turn — 

Better luck, my lad ! 



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THE FUN OF ILLUSTRATING WITH SNIP 

PICTURES 

Material Required to Make Snip Pictures : Some 
thin dark kindergarten paper and some cardboard. 

Tools Needed to Make Snip Pictures: Scissors 
and paste. 

Snip picture fun is good for a rainy day party 
when you are tired of painting and want to make 
something you have not done many times before. 
Just telephone over to your chum's house and ask 
her to come over and bring her brother or her sister 
and two pairs of scissors — one for each child. 

Arrange a big work table with chairs. Put some 
newspapers down on the floor to catch any "snip- 
pings" that fall. Put others at each place. 

Next cut some cardboard mounts each about five 
inches long and four inches high. Make three of 
these for each child. Put them in the center of the 
table with some paste. 

When the children come, tell them you are all 
going to see who can cut the best pictures out of 
the dark paper.. You are going to illustrate differ- 
ent things. You have to cut the figures of people, 

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animals, birds out of this paper with nothing to guide 
your scissors but your own fingers and your own 
thought and sense of form. First, try some easy 
thing like a house. That's easy! When the play- 
ers have found out how easy things can be cut, have 
them begin to illustrate some story. Take Cinder- 
ella, Cut the figures in silhouette and mount them 
in place upon the cardboard mount that each child 
has. As the pictures are done, number them and 
write the artist's name on the back of the picture. 
Place the pictures in a row somewhere. Afterwards 
vote which one is best. 

A good way to play — another way — is to write out 
a list of stories that shall be illustrated. Write three 
easy stories on slips, three for each child. Here is a 
list of things you might try: 

Mary and her Little Lamb. 
The Early Bird and the Worm. 
. The Old Woman Who Lived in a Shoe. 
Mother Goose. 
The Ugly Duckling. 
My Little Doggie, Tray. 
Simple Simon Went A-fishing 
Little Bo-Peep. 

You will yourself think of many others. Write each 
subject on a slip of paper separately and fold them. 
Put all into a basket and when the children are seated 
and have seen how to cut the relief pictures, pass 
the basket and let each take a paper from it. This 

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will be the subject for the picture they are to make 
but nobody must know what they are making. 

Place all finished pictures in a line. When one 
child finishes, he must wait till the others have 
caught up, but only fifteen minutes should be al- 
lowed, at most, for making one illustration. 

When the pictures are done, write your names on 
the back with the title on your slip. 

After everybody has illustrated three dififerent sub- 
jects, some one takes all the slips aside and reads 
off the titles. Each child must have paper and pen- 
cil. Then each must look at the pictures made and 
put the number of the picture beside the title. The 
one to have the most perfect list wins. 

After all have made their guesses, exchange lists 
and correct them. Some pretty picture that you have 
will be a jolly prize. 

What is more fun than a game — 

I wonder what you think best* 
Fd say it was a party 

For that is the thing / guessed! 



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Here's our last page, 

We say good-bye — 
We have been comrades, 

You and I; 
We've had our fun, 

We've had our play. 
We'll meet again 

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